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 Hugo Letemplier <hug...@gm...>:
> 2012/6/15 Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe...@ni...>:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:25:03PM +0200, Yougo wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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

Sorry my mail was sent before I finished writing :-(

Also I have got different kind of content that should be kept for a
very long time.
To finish I have an Archive pool that stores job copies on LTO Tapes