> I guess I need to load 12 -16 tapes into my pool and set the retention
> period to a month?

Remember that the retention period is counted from the time the last
job was run on the volume after it was marked Used or Full so a month
may be too long.

> Once the full backup is completed each week take out
> the tapes that have been written to and allow Bacula to write to the
> next tape in the pool? I wouldn't want the last tape to be appendable,
> so would have to mark that tape as Full some how?
>
Specify Volume Use Duration and/or Maximum Volume Jobs

to have the tapes automatically marked used after your backup completes.

http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0018150000000000000000

>

I left out the other questions because I do not have time to address
those at the moment.

John

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