On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:31 PM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, McCann, Brian <bmcc...@andmore.com> wrote:
>> Hi all. I've got a configuration issue that's been driving me nuts for
>> weeks now. I backup several Windows machines using Bacula, to a large disk
>> array. Each workstation gets its own pool. My problem is that I have the
>> pool "theoretically" set to keep 15 days of backups, but currently it's got
>> 26 days of files in it. Here's a pool configuration:
>>
>> Pool {
>> Name = ftsstudents2
>> Use Volume Once = yes
>> Pool Type = Backup
>> LabelFormat = "ftsstudents2"
>> Auto Prune = yes
>> Volume Retention = 15d
>> Recycle = yes
>> }
>>
>> I've read the documentation, but for the life of me I can't see why it's not
>> deleting files/backups older than 15 days. Can anyone point me in the right
>> direction and tell me what the heck I'm doing wrong here? I'm currently on
>> Bacula 3.0.3.
>>
> You need to limit the volume usage so that the volumes are marked Full
> or Used. Once the volumes are marked Full or Used the retention period
> begins. Since you do not have any of the 4 limiting commands you
> volumes will never recycle:
>
Correction. They will be marked Full when you run out of disk space on
your array. 15 days after that the volumes will be available for
recycling...
John
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