Dear List,

We have got a single-slot tapedrive and therefor do not have the luxury 
of letting Bacula decide which volume/tape to use. So our configuration 
forces Bacula to use a Monday-volume(tape), a Tuesday-volume(tape) etc. 
I have implemented a RunBeforeJob which checks if the current date is a 
holiday or not and forces the backup to be canceled if needed.
However this leads to the need of multiple manual interventions as soon 
as the holidayperiod has ended: when a pool of volumes is pruned for 
instance the Monday volume gets pruned and on Tuesday (not being a 
holiday) Bacula want the oldest available volume being the Monday 
volume. The next day same issue. This obviously continues until the 
retention-period in that pool is reached again.

How can I let Bacula skip that volume one more entire retention period 
(through a script)?

Regards
Olaf

PS
I have an idea how to do this but it will require extensive scripting 
and as far as I know there is no "predict" command in bconsole to 
predict which volume will be used next the script has to be flawless to 
predict and manipulate the catalog. Sounds a bit dangerous to me. 
Something easier and less invasive would be nice.


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