Thank you sir!  I will try this in a little while.

On 06/04/2013 05:16 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:56:34AM -0400, Michael D. Wood wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to
>> wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish.  Hopefully, 
>> someone
>> here can point me in the right direction.  This is just a home setup
>> backing up 2 Linux and 1 FreeBSD server.  The backups are just going 
>> to
>> a 1TB external USB drive.  Bacula has been working great for all I 
>> use
>> it for.
>>
>> I want to be able to split the volumes Bacula creates in 5GB chunks 
>> (to
>> make restores faster and just easier manageability).  I have messed
>> around with the Max Volume Bytes directive but wasn't sure if I 
>> needed
>> to use vchanger with this?
>>
>> If I can get Bacula to split the volumes into 5GB chunks, is Bacula
>> able to automatically create another in the pool, and keep writing 
>> to
>> it?  When that one reaches 5GB it just creates another volume?  From
>> what I've seen it *LOOKS* like it can be done.  Any ideas?
>>
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> yep, that's indeed possible and can be done via the "pool" directive.
>
> Say you have 1TB of backup space you want to split in 5GB volumes,
> then the following pool definition would accomplish this (just the
> important bits):
>
> Pool {
>   Name = Online
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes
>   AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>
>   Purge Oldest Volume = yes
>   Recycle  Oldest Volume = yes
>   Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
>   Maximum Volumes = 200
>   Action On Purge = Truncate
>   Label Format = "Online-"
> }
>
> After a while you would end up with 200 5GB files in the directory
> your storage definition points to.
>
> All the best, Uwe


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