On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Lamp Zy <lam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > How do I configure Bacula to use a new set of tapes for each month? > > I'm trying to configure Bacula to not use tapes across months. This way > for each month I'll have a set of tapes that I can send off-side. > > For example on the 1st of February all tapes that were used in January > should be marked "used" and Bacula should try to find other appendable > tapes to use for February's backups. > > I tried to use "Volume Use Duration = 1 months" but this is not very > accurate. Some months are longer then others and if for some reason a > tape is marked in "error" then Bacula pulls another tape and the cycle > starts in the middle of the month. > > Is there any way to tell Bacula that if it's the 1st of the month mark > the append-able tapes as "used" and look for other tapes? > > Or any other idea to handle the off-side issue? >
Here is 1 idea: Odd / even month pools. Use schedule resource to schedule jobs to the appropriate pool depending if you are in an odd or even month. 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 Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
