2009/6/16 Andreas Schuldei <schuldei+bacula-users AT spotify DOT com>:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:48 AM, francisco javier funes nieto
> <esencia AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe this can help you ..
>>
>>
>> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION001180000000000000000
>
> should that even work if we dont use tape but backup to hard disk?
> because we dont see it happening. (bacula keeps creating new files and the
> old ones seem to be kept around forever.)
>

Yes. All media is treated the same as far as recycling is concerned,

> perhaps the retention times are to blame?   how should the file retention,
> job retention and volume retention times be relative to each other?
> all of those retention times are long since expired for the earlier files.
>

If the retention period was changed in the configuration files after
the volume was labeled bacula does not automatically apply that to
existing volumes.

use the update pool

command in bacula to force the .conf retention period to the existing volumes.

Also

list media

should be of use

John

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