On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 09:14 +0200, Fahrer, Julian wrote: > Hi Erik, > > volumes will only be reused after the volume retention period is reached. > And the point of keeping a volume which doesn't contain jobIDs is that you > could import the tape or recover data from it using btape since it still > contains all files.
Greetings Julian is correct with exceptions. Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Recycle Current Volume = yes PurgeOldestVolume = yes Warning, the following description may not be perfect: I use recycle oldest and purge oldest. This way, the job records can be maintained in the catalog with an unresonably long job retention period. When the director completes jobs, it will still perform pruning operations pruning file records. Then when the director goes to schedule a job, it will purge job records from the volume and label it recycled if all jobs have had their file records pruned. The volume chosen to recyle will be the one that has not been written to for the longest period. The status dir will show the recycled volume as the volume scheduled to use. For instance, I have a pool with two tapes for Tuesday and Thursday. I want to use it four times then have it schedule using the othe tape rotating every two weeks. Pool { Name = LTO_TueThu Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 16 Days Volume Use Duration = 10 Days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes PurgeOldestVolume = yes Storage = LTO } Set it up recently and it seems to work so far. Best of luck. The documentation is awesome because there are so many possible parameters. The one thing that may be missing is more recipes from current users. Dirk > > Kind regards > > Julian > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: phatrik [mailto:bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009 03:46 > An: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: [Bacula-users] Job vs volume retention periods > > > Hi, > > I'm confused in regards to job retention vs volume retention. From the > little bit I understand, if the volume retention period is passed and bacula > is unable to find any other appendable volumes in the client's stoarge pool, > it will delete all file and job records and then re-use that volume. > However, how about if all the jobs in that volume have been pruned but the > volume retention period hasn't passed yet (and of course recycling is > enabled) Will bacula still re-use the volume since no more jobs remained > after they've all been pruned? If it does, what's the purpose of having a > volume retention period which is usually without a doubt longer than the job > retention period? If it doesn't, what's the point of keeping a volume which > doesn't contain jobIDs which can't be restored anymore? > > > thanks in advance, > > > > Erik > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by erik.go...@gmail.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users