>> This means that the volume will be used for a maximum of 23hrs -- If my
>> understanding is correct, this can only be used for 23h after it's
>> created?
>>
>
> Not exactly... Yes, 23h hours after the first time bacula writes any data
> into it. BUT, the volume may be recycled later,

He has a 1 year retention on these volumes. After that time the volume
will be up for recycling.

>which means discarding the
> old data in it, and then there will be another 23h period, with the original
> volume name. And this is where the volume label with timestamp of original
> create time may be very misleading.
>

An admin job or cron job can be used to delete these volumes before
they get recycled but this is outside of bacula.

John

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