On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> If you do everyday a backup you need to change the "Volume Retention" >>> to something lower than 7 days because the retention is counted from >>> the last written date. >> >> Can you be more detail here? I need to make it less then 7 to make it >> recycle? >> >> Im little confused about all Bacula retention policy... > > timeline: > > day 1 22:00: start backupjob, allocate volume > 23:30: jobs ends > > day x 22:00: start backupjob, allocate volume > 23:30: jobs ends > > day 8 22:00: backup job starts, doesn't find a volume to append > 23:30: just now the volume from day 1 could be recycled > > at least i think this is how the retention time of the volume is > calculated
Yes this is correct. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
