-----Original Message-----
From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: 17 December 2009 17:26
To: Timo Neuvonen; Gabriel - IP Guys
Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes are above the limit?

>> 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

(Gabriel Says)
I also have Use Volume Once = yes configured -- Based one what I've read
today from people on the list, my understanding is that even if Volume
Once is configured to yes, this only means that once the volume become
available, by its retention period expiring, or newly created, it'll
only have one job on it.

So, as a remedy, I think I'll have a retention period of 200 years, and
let my replacement worry about it :)

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