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From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:31 AM
To: Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]
Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] job expiration question

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] 
<uthra.r.rao AT nasa DOT gov> wrote:
> Is there a command in bconsole where I can find out when a particular 
> jobid expires?
>
>
>
> I have set-up a desktop pool with expiration period 3 months.
>
>
>
> The first backup of a client was done on 5/22/2012 so I was expecting 
> the job to expire in 3 months and by 8/22/2012 and automatically start 
> a full backup of this client. To my surprise I am seeing only 
> incremental backups every day.
>
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>
>
>
> pool {
>
>   Name = desktop
>
>   Pool Type = Backup
>
>   Recycle = yes
>
>   Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
>
>   Autoprune = yes
>
>   Volume Retention = 3 months
>
> }
>
>


Is this a disk volume? Remember the retention period does not start until the 
volume is marked as Used or Full. For disk volumes that means you need to 
specify some restriction on volume usage or size otherwise the volume will grow 
till it exhausts your storage. At that point it will mark your volume full and 
want to wait 3 months after that to reuse the volume.

John


John,

I am using LTO-5 tapes (2TB). It takes a long time for that tape to get FULL. 

So the tape on which the jobid in question exists, should get FULL and only 
then the retention period set in the config file comes in to picture right?

Is there a way to force the job to expire every 3 months even if the tape is 
not FULL and is still in the APPEND mode?

Thank you.
Uthra

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