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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