ggirao Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Is it possible to limit in time old backups? I want to "auto" Recycle about a certain period (like 2 weeks/1 month or so). I can see that in windows backup it erases about 6 days older. TY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 You schedule a recycle script ever 2 weeks or every 1 month. (It looks like you talk about grroming, which can be set to keep (for instance) the last 6 backups of each client. I see no reason to combine grooming with recycling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted August 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 The problem is that recycling "erases" all... even the first/last files. So I have a backup with about 4,8TB. It took 95 hours to complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I see. No, you can only set grooming to a number of backup, not number of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I forgot to mention: You can schedule a groom script any time you like. We run every weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted August 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Grooming doesnt work on Disk Media Sets :-((( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Grooming doesnt work on Disk Media Sets :-((( Of course they do. That's the only type of media set they work on. From the version 9 manual: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted August 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 YOU ARE SO RIGHT! The option of grooming was disabled, but now I see the options. Thank you again so much RTFM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 sorry for bring this old thread. I'm already groomng backups, but my destination disk isn't getting any free space. Any helps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 You probably keep too many backups. Or hardly any files are groomed out, because they haven't changed and still exists (on the source). The log should tell you how much data is groomed. So how much is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Right only 32GB + Executing Grooming at 13/10/31 (Activity Thread 2)Grooming Backup Set ****-Retro...Groomed 32,4 GB from Backup Set ****-Retro.13/10/31 12:49:23: Execution completed successfullyDuration: 01:59:28 (00:08:06 idle/loading/preparing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 my destination disk isn't getting any free space. Right only 32GB So, do you get 32GB free or nothing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 I get 32GB free... but on a 12TB disk it's almost nothing ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 How much is backed up when you run a backup to the media set in question? About 32GB? How many backups have you performed since last recycle? How many backups do you want to keep when you groom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 How much is backed up when you run a backup to the media set in question? About 32GB? How many backups have you performed since last recycle? How many backups do you want to keep when you groom? I'm grooming to retrospect defined policy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 You only answered one of my questions. "Retrospect defined policy" keeps way too many backups for my taste. And it doesn't really groom anything until the drive is (nearly) full. How much free space do you have (of the 12 TB)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Now I have 4% free space. I did groom manually and you are right. On a 1,3TB share only has free 32GB after groom. So what do you suggest? Last 10 backups? Create a groom policy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 If you backup every weekday and want to keep the backups two weeks, then keeping the last 10 backups seems good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 That's not frequent, but i have some people that asks for a folder that was erased mistakenly 2 months ago. with 10 last backups and every day back... hummm Not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Don't you archive older backups in any way? We transfer backups to tape every week. Every tape is saved 2 months. One tape every month is stored for at least a year, the others are re-used. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Not anymore... Our tape Library died. Considering to use AWS Glacier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Since hard disks are cheap you might consider this scenario: Backup every weekday to the present disk. Keep 10 backups (2 weeks). Copy once a week to a new disk called "Weekly". Keep 10 backups (2,5 months). Copy once a month to a new disk called "Monthly". Keep 12 backups (1 year). Copy once a year to a new disk called "Yearly". Never groom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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