>>>>> On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:17:50 +0200, Olaf Zevenboom said:
> 
> 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)?

Have you tried adding

Recycle Current Volume = yes

to the pool?

Alternatively, you could have a pool for each day of the week.

__Martin

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