Ralf Gross wrote:
> Luis Cañas Díaz schrieb:
>   
>> I've have a doubt about purged volumes in Bacula. I've been working with
>> Bacula the last months without any problem, but now I'm realising that
>> I'm running out without free volumes in my Pool.
>>
>> The retention period has been set to 2 months and the maximal number of
>> volumes was reached. However I still see some volumes that I think
>> should be purged because the LastWritten parameter is older than 2
>> months.
>>
>> ¿What will happen when the last of my volumes change to full state and
>> there are now purged volumes?
>>     
>
> If you are running bacula 2.2.x , bacula will purge the volumes only
> if absoulte necessary. With bacula < 2.2.x you were able to 'trigger'
> pruning with the 'status dir' command. In 2.2.x this is not possible
> anymore. If you've set retention times and other relevant settings
> correct bacula should recycle the volumes when needed and no other
> volume is available.
>
> Ralf
I find this behavior odd, and counter-intuitive.  I feel that Bacula 
should honor the retention times that I have configured.

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