On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> 
wrote:
>
>>>
>>> If you do everyday a backup you need to change the "Volume Retention"
>>> to something lower than 7 days because the retention is counted from
>>> the last written date.
>>
>> Can you be more detail here? I need to make it less then 7 to make it
>> recycle?
>>
>> Im little confused about all Bacula retention policy...
>
> timeline:
>
> day 1 22:00: start backupjob, allocate volume
>      23:30: jobs ends
>
> day x 22:00: start backupjob, allocate volume
>      23:30: jobs ends
>
> day 8 22:00: backup job starts, doesn't find a volume to append
>      23:30: just now the volume from day 1 could be recycled
>
> at least i think this is how the retention time of the volume is
> calculated

Yes this is correct.

John

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