On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:28 PM, ganiuszka <ganiuszka AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> John M. Drescher wrote:
>>
>> Volume retention does not start until a volume is marked Full or Used.
>> Then the time of last written is used to compute the retention period.
>>
> I agree.
> So I have one more question. In which volume states (VolStatus) a volume can
> be prune in the automatic volume recycling? The Bacula documentation
> provides the following status for this situation: Append, Full, Used, and
> Error.

A volume will only be pruned automatically if it is Full or Used and
after its retention period has elapsed as I described above.

> Why Append can be prune and when?
>

You can manually prune any volume.

Bacula will not do any automatic recycling on volumes in the following
states: Append, Archive or Error.

John

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