> So I'm backing data up to an external drive. I have maximum volume jobs
> set to 1, to ensure that each job uses a different volume. I would also
> like it such that volumes are not reused, so I assume I should set
> recycle to no. Now the question is, when the retention period comes up,
> will the volumes that are past the retention period be deleted? If they
> are not, I'll run out of space on my external drive.
>

Bacula does not delete the volumes automatically. If recycling were allowed, 
the volumes would be re-used, but never actually deleted in that case 
either.

If you need to delete the volumes, you have to do it manually, or using some 
sort of admin job or script. And before deleting the volume files, also 
delete the volumes from the catalog to prevent the catalog growing 
unnecessarily.

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TiN 



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