On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 10:42 +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> When it comes to marking tapes as Used or Full, there seem to be two
> ways to do it currently:
>
> * Maximum Volume Jobs
> * Volume Use Duration
>
> So, you can either say "23 hours after the first job which wrote to
> this
> tape {started,finished}, mark it as used" to get you a new tape every
> day (I'm not sure which of those two options applies, but I guess it's
> in TFM somewhere)
>
> Or, you can say "After <n> jobs have been written to this tape, close
> it
> off/mark it used" Ahhh....and this means after Max Retention passes, the tapes get flagged "recycle" and so there's always one tape marked recycle/append and the rest are marked "used"? This is definately good material for the "Backup Strategy" chapter in the documentation. ~lava > > The latter is what I do. I run 10 jobs every night, most of them on the > same schedule, so they start at the same time, although they don't run
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