Re: Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...
"Gary R. Schmidt" <[email protected]>
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On 01/10/2024 00:26, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > Mandi! Phil Stracchino > In chel di` si favelave... > >> Incidentally, the way I solved this was: >> — Use volumes ONCE >> — Prune expired volumes into the scratch pool >> — Regularly clean and delete all volumes found in the scratch pool (or, >> as an added later refinement just in case of mishaps, any volume not >> found in ANY pool) > > OK, i suppose you have the (main) pool where the full(s) reside, and the > scratch pool used for incrementals. > No, the Incremental pool is for Incremental Backups. The Scratch pool is for blank, empty, or recycled volumes, it is where Bacula goes looking for tapes/disks/whatever when it fills up what it is using. RTFM again, it took me about three goes to understand it - and I've been doing backups since 9-track tape drives were vertical! Cheers, Gary B-) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users