Re: [Bacula-users] Checking Storage Daemon file system free space before mounting/creating a volume and before running a job

[Hugo L. <hug...@gm...>]

2012/6/15 Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe...@ni...>:
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:25:03PM +0200, Yougo wrote:
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>> Is it possible to check a free space ratio on the storage daemon,
>>  fail a job if required instead of failing also the volumes, waiting
>>  for a mount… and thus avoid a lot of successive error that could
>>  cause miscomprehension for the operator. Else have you got a
>>  solution to avoid my issue. I will have more space in few weeks but
>>  my backups are also being much larger due to enterprise expansion.
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> For the moment I think your best bet would be a RunBeforeJob script
> that checks the free space on the filesystem, retrieves the size of
> the last full backup for the client being backed up and then does some
> comparisons based on these parameters.
>
> If the question is allowed: Why do you have so many pools defined? I
> usually only have my incremental an full pools, but of course once the
> PHBs start bugging you with different backup "classes" and
> "strategies", that's the first thing that usually goes out of the
> window.
>
> All the best, Uwe
>
>
I have different classes of jobs because I have about 4 different
kind of backup
I split data from the system backup ( I need b, so we had 6 pools also
I have an old mail system based on big database files that need to be
kept for a shorter time