On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 01:45:25PM +0100, Gumprich, Sebastian wrote:
> I see no downsides with this, except that I don't have backups that are
> older than 14 days, but that's not needed.
> The problem with recycling oldest volumes is, when Bacula uses the
> oldest volumes, it would use 5 incremental, small volumes, when the
> large full-backup-volumes are still there, taking up disk space.
> Any workaround to this, except for manually searching for old volumes
> and deleting them?

Erm, if you delete the Full the Incrementals are based on, you can throw
away the Incrementals just as well in almost all cases. So if you e.g.
do 1 Full every week, rest incrementals and radically delete everything
that is older than 14 days, you can restore 1-2 wekks, depending on the
date of failure. In that case an official retention period of 1 week is
much more honest together with recycle oldes volumes.

Regards,
        Adrian
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