bacula - backup growing to large
I have bacula installed on a centos machine.
It's only backing up about a total of 3GB of data uncompressed. I have it backing up to the local server that is a 176GB raid 5 setup. I only really need or want a backup of the last 8 days. My aim is to 2 fulls and incrementals on the rest. I had set it to purge at 8 days but from what I found it looks like that just deletes the record, it doesn't wipe out the actual backup. My issue is that my backup file is now about 100GB when I really was only hoping that it'd grow to 40GB. How can I go about keeping this backup file in check? Thanks, |
Okay, so what it looks like is I need to setup either more volumes, or more pools. As I only have one right now.
So to recap, if I have my files being stored locally on the hard drives. Do I need to create more volumes or pools to back up to? I'm pretty sure this is what I need to get some rotation working for my backups to keep the file sizes manageable. Thanks, |
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Start by reading at this chapter about volume management: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/...00000000000000 Here's what my own Pools are configured as: Code:
# Pool Definitions Code:
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You nailed it on the head as I am only using one LARGE pool that doesn't ever shrink. Thanks for the link and your example it's what I was looking for.
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No problem. Also another good resource is the bacula mailing lists. I'm not trying to say don't ask your questions about bacula here but bacula isn't really mainstream, if you don't get an answer here, they're pretty good about responding on their lists though.
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Okay one more question. I have things all setup. I can get bacula started. It looks like I can get backups going.
I'm trying to get a fresh start here. If we are creating a bunch of different pools. I assume we need to do a bunch of 'label's to accommodate these? Do we need to label a default, inc, full if that's what I'm doing? Or just create a 'Default' with label? Sorry for the newbish question here but I'm really trying to wrap my head around volumes and pools for the first time. |
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