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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.

2015-03-16 15:12:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.
From: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:07:31 -0500
On 03/16/2015 12:48 PM, Joseph Wagner wrote:

> As of now I've been backing up a single server to a 1TB SATA drive.
...
> Basically I'd like this job to do this every week and prune old data when
> the media fills up.

Easy: make Maximum Volume Bytes * Maximum Volumes < .9TB (give it some
safety buffer, at least a couple of Max Vol Bytes). Purge & recycle
oldest volume with auto prune.

The biggest problem is what happens when your SATA drive fails.

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

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