> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: den 7 maj 2015 19:09 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution > > my year of monthlies and month of dailies of 25 servers has been more or > less constant size for a year or two now as it deletes the oldest > backups.May I ask what your settings are to achieve that retention rate? Thanks. -- //Sorin
On 5/7/2015 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:> May I ask what your settings are to achieve that retention rate?there's a lot of settings... but these are probably applicable... Main Config: Schedule: FullPeriod: 27.9 FullKeepCnt: 24 FullKeepCntMin: 8 FullAgeMax: 360 IncrPeriod: 0.97 IncrKeepCnt: 30 IncrKeepMin: 1 IncrAgeMax: 30 IncrLevels: 1 on a few hosts where dailies are not appropriate due to how long they take, I override to do weekly incrementals instead Schedule: FullPeriod: 89.6 FullKeepCnt: 2 FullKeepCntMin: 2 IncrPeriod: 6.97 IncrKeepCnt: 15 IncrAgeMax: 100 many of those are probably defaults, but I didn't keep track which ones I modified another thing, many of my servers are SQL database servers (mostly postgresql and oracle). I do NOT backup the sql data file systems directly with backuppc, instead, I have the SQL do archiving or scheduled dumps, and I backup those archive and dump destinations... -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: den 8 maj 2015 17:12 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution > > On 5/7/2015 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > May I ask what your settings are to achieve that retention rate? > > there's a lot of settings... but these are probably applicable... > > Main Config: > Schedule: > FullPeriod: 27.9 > FullKeepCnt: 24 > FullKeepCntMin: 8 > FullAgeMax: 360 > IncrPeriod: 0.97 > IncrKeepCnt: 30 > IncrKeepMin: 1 > IncrAgeMax: 30 > IncrLevels: 1 > > on a few hosts where dailies are not appropriate due to how long they > take, I override to do weekly incrementals instead > > Schedule: > FullPeriod: 89.6 > FullKeepCnt: 2 > FullKeepCntMin: 2 > IncrPeriod: 6.97 > IncrKeepCnt: 15 > IncrAgeMax: 100 > > many of those are probably defaults, but I didn't keep track which ones > I modified > > another thing, many of my servers are SQL database servers (mostly > postgresql and oracle). I do NOT backup the sql data file systems > directly with backuppc, instead, I have the SQL do archiving or > scheduled dumps, and I backup those archive and dump destinations...Thanks, very much appreciated! I'll play around with the settings a bit more, but yours is a good starter. Thanks again! -- //Sorin