On 01/20/2015 02:35 PM, Polcari, Joe (Contractor) wrote:

> My problem is I’m setting up many SDs on FreeNAS using re-purposed
Isolon boxes. I estimate what it can hold and configure it (add clients)
but it all depends on the data volume, which for the systems I’m backing
up, is extremely variable, so I was trying to clear out any data that
expired once the current backup was done.

Why? -- if it's just the backups, use max volume size and max # volumes
to keep the filesystem at whatever-it-can-comfortably-handle-%-full and
let bacula overwrite volumes when it needs to.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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