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Re: [Bacula-users] Manage disk space used by Bacula

2013-03-08 04:36:00
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Manage disk space used by Bacula
From: Jérôme Blion <jerome.blion AT free DOT fr>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:31:45 +0100
Le 2013-03-07 22:53, artakami a écrit :
> Hi
> I am currently using Bacula 5.2.12 and I am having problem with
> controlling disk space.
> It seems like bacula does not overwrite old data in backup files
> until it fills up whole disk space.
>
> I would like to know if anybody else had/having same problem and how
> did they get over it?
>

The best way to control space used by Bacula I found is to set up :
  - volume maximum size
  - volume count to a fixed value

This way, you know how much space a pool can use.
Because I don't need several ones, it was even easier...

Disk space needed : volume count x max volume size.

HTH.
Jérôme Blion.

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