On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ward Poelmans <wpoel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to bacula: i've worked with it for 6 months now. But > now, there is happening something which I do not understand: Automatic > Volume Recycling. I've got a client with a job retention of 6 months > with autoprune on. It writes to a pool (File storage) with a volume > retention of 1 year, max 1 job per volume, and a max number of volumes > set to 365. Autoprune and recycle are on. After every backup, the > volume is thus marked as 'used'. From the docs, I though this meant > that the volumes are kept for a period of 1 year before being pruned > and reused. However, now 6 months have passed and jobs are being > pruned.
You are seeing the 6 month job retention here. In your case this will not work for exactly the reason you observe. > What I now see in the logs is: "There are no more Jobs > associated with Volume "X". Marking it purged.". And it then recycles > the volume for the backup job. This is not what I want. I've checked > in bat and the volumes that are being recycled all have an expire date > that is 6 months in the future. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing > here? > I would extend the job retention to 1 year. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users