Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-11-01 Thread Thorsten Reichelt
Hi! Yes, I know. But I have 6 clients. And for each client I wrote two jobs: 1) Backup to file (pool: filepool) 2) Backup to tape (pool: monthlytape) The tape backup is triggered on every first saturday of a month. The schedule and the job looks like this (from memory): === Schedule

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-30 Thread John Drescher
> That's a great idea! > But this would mean that I have to generate jobs for each month... for > each client. Or am I wrong?! > No. You can select the pool in the schedule resource. http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00145 John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-30 Thread Thorsten Reichelt
Thank you so much for your answers!! At the moment I have unfortunately verry litle time to try out all your hints :( -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourcef

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-30 Thread Thorsten Reichelt
Hi! That's a great idea! But this would mean that I have to generate jobs for each month... for each client. Or am I wrong?! > If you truly want the monthly tapes to only ever be used for that > particular month, you may wish to consider creating a pool for each > month instead. Then in your S

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-15 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 10/15/2014 11:45 AM, Thorsten Reichelt wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem with my tape pool configuration. > I want to use exactly 12 LTO tapes (one tape per month). > After 12 month the oldest tape shall be reused without appending new data. Other issues aside, you do realise that tape reliabil

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-15 Thread Bryn Hughes
One more thing that is worth mentioning... If you truly want the monthly tapes to only ever be used for that particular month, you may wish to consider creating a pool for each month instead. Then in your Schedule you can specify the specific pool for that month: Schedule { Name = Month

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-15 Thread John Drescher
> Remember that the retention period does not even begin until the tape > is marked Full or Used. And then after it is marked Full or Used the > period is calculated from the LastWrittenDate on the volume (stored in > the database). > > If you want to control how long a volume is used bacula has a

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-15 Thread Bryn Hughes
There are a couple of things you can do in combination to get the result you want... First off, in your pool set a 'volume use duration' - this will restrict how long a time span of data can exist on a tape. For instance in your case you could set the volume use duration to 32 days, this would

[Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

2014-10-15 Thread Thorsten Reichelt
Hi! I have a problem with my tape pool configuration. I want to use exactly 12 LTO tapes (one tape per month). After 12 month the oldest tape shall be reused without appending new data. But bacula seems to ignore my recycle and purge configuration (see below). After one year I reuse the old tape