> Well, from the docs: "The Volume Retention record defines the length
> of time that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused
> counting from the time the last job stored on the Volume terminated."

That is correct.

> It also doesn't make sense to recycle as soon as the job no longer
> exists in the database.

Normally you have more than 1 job on a volume and jobs may have
different retention periods.

> I limit the job retention period to keep the
> database small but I can keep the volumes a lot longer without
> problem.

Extend the job retention but cut the file retention. The job record
does not store that much information where the files will be the bulk
of the database size.

John

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