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[Bacula-users] Question on recycling migrated volumes

2010-06-08 11:47:52
Subject: [Bacula-users] Question on recycling migrated volumes
From: Robert LeBlanc <robert AT leblancnet DOT us>
To: "bacula-users (anglais)" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:39:16 -0600
I've been looking through the manual and I can't find a clear answer. We are doing d2d2t and we would like to recycle volumes that have all jobs migrated first, even if that means the retention period of the volume is not up. Right now, I think the retention period has to expire before the volume is considered to be recycled. The problem comes where we may have a large flux of data some data and very little for a while. We have set our migration policy for three weeks and our retention for four weeks, but sometimes we have a lot of volumes that have been migrated and are just sitting taking up disk space that could be used for other back-ups (we have to keep a lot of disk space free to compensate for this flux) and then we wind up with a lot of volumes with only about half really having data in our 3 week migration window. I'm looking at "Action on Purge" to free the disk space of unused volumes, but I don't think the volume is purged when all the jobs are migrated.

If someone has clarification or a good idea of how to accomplish our goals, it would be helpful.

Thank you,

Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University
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