I've set all the retention times to be the same as my current
settings. Is there any reason to ensure that I have more than one Diff
backup retained or more than one week of Inc. Backups?
Mark
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:
> 2010/10/5 Mark Coolen <mark.coolen AT gmail DOT com>:
>> I'm having a hard time configuring bacula to stay within the 1TB
>> backup space I have available. I'm backing up Student, Teacher and
>> Office files at a Secondary school.
>> The total size of the files is ~200GB
>> I'm running a Full backup on the 1st Sat. of the month, a Diff. on the
>> 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sat. and nightly Inc. backups Mon. - Fri.
>> I'd like to retain the Full backups for as close to 3 months as I can
>> get within the space.
>> Inc. Jobs run around 10GB, Diff. Jobs run around 30GB (although I
>> could lower the totals by eliminating some directories.
>>
>> Attached is my current director file.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
> I would investigate the size of the volume files directly. Also
> remember that changing the pool definitions does not affect already
> existing volumes. They will retain their old restrictions unless you
> specifically apply the new configuration in bacula using two update
> statements.. I do not remember the exact syntax so I will search the
> archives for that if you need this.
>
> John
>
--
___________________________
| Coolen Software Solutions
| +1.519.652.9378
| mark.coolen AT gmail DOT com
|___________________________
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports
standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3.
Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great
experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
|
