On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Stephan Jennewein <xt3 AT cccmz DOT de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my set up is that i backup to disk and have set the 'usevolumeonce' option in
> the pools. so when those volumes are recycled will the data be freed and the
> volume will allocate another amount of space or will my jobs in the future
> fragment over a dozen of the small volumes ?
>
>    53  Full          1    16.08 M  OK       24-May-08 23:05 BackupCatalog
>    54  Full   5,498,657    116.8 G  OK       26-May-08 02:45 Lisa.BACKUP
>    55  Full          1    16.09 M  OK       26-May-08 02:45 BackupCatalog
>    56  Diff      4,403    162.7 M  OK       26-May-08 23:00 Mona.BACKUP
>    57  Diff      2,838    303.3 M  OK       26-May-08 23:00 Terri.BACKUP
>    58  Full          1    16.84 M  OK       26-May-08 23:05 BackupCatalog
>    59  Diff         27    739.9 K  OK       27-May-08 23:00 Bart.BACKUP
>    60  Full          1    16.84 M  OK       27-May-08 23:05 BackupCatalog
>
The data will be freed I believe on first usage. I would say a better
policy than use volume once would be to specify the maximum size of
the volume to a few GB. I have used 2GB and 5GB in my setups however I
admit I only do 10 tape backups to every disk backup...

John

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