Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 11:25:33
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling
From: Ward Poelmans <wpoely86 AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:23:10 +0200
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 16:14, Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com> 
wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:39:48 -0400, John Drescher said:
>>
>> > 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.
>
> Yes, it has been like this for a long time, but always seemed like a bug to me
> (at least a bug in docs -- the word "guarantee" is too strong).

So, is there any way to make sure it does not recycle volumes until
the retention period is over other then increase the job retention
period?

Ward

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