On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ward Poelmans <wpoely86 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm rather new to bacula: i've worked with it for 6 months now. But
> now, there is happening something which I do not understand: Automatic
> Volume Recycling. I've got a client with a job retention of 6 months
> with autoprune on. It writes to a pool (File storage) with a volume
> retention of 1 year, max 1 job per volume, and a max number of volumes
> set to 365. Autoprune and recycle are on. After every backup, the
> volume is thus marked as 'used'. From the docs, I though this meant
> that the volumes are kept for a period of 1 year before being pruned
> and reused. However, now 6 months have passed and jobs are being
> pruned.

You are seeing the 6 month job retention here. In your case this will
not work for exactly the reason you observe.

> What I now see in the logs is: "There are no more Jobs
> associated with Volume "X". Marking it purged.". And it then recycles
> the volume for the backup job. This is not what I want. I've checked
> in bat and the volumes that are being recycled all have an expire date
> that is 6 months in the future. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing
> here?
>

I would extend the job retention to 1 year.

John

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