On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hello,
> I've initially setup bacula(1.38 on Debian stable) to use one volume,
> but now I'm reaching my capacity.
>
> 729G 2008-12-08 09:27 bacula20080801
>
> It obviously was already 3 months since we were doing backups, so to
> lower the size of the backup file I would like to remove the 1st month
> backup aka 200808. How can that be done?
> File retention is set to 30 days and job retention is set to 6 months,
> but it doesn't look like the files older then 30 days get deleted.
>
> Should my volume be split up into smaller size volumes?
>
Yes. Retention will not work if you do not have at least 2 volumes and
limit the volume size to a reasonable size.

John

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