On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Steffen Knauf
<Steffen.Knauf AT renderforce DOT de> wrote:
> Hi
>>
>> Bacula will only recycle volumes if absolutely necessary, ...
>>
> But how bacula decide if it's necessary to recycle volumes? From my
> point of view it's a little bit random, because
> on one day bacula create another volume and on another day bacula
> recycle the volume.
>

Recycling is based on retention times. This may cause some confusion
though. The retention period does not start until the volume is marked
Full or Used. And on top of that if you changed the length of the
volume retention period in the configuration after the volume/tape was
labeled, bacula will keep whatever was the old retention period. To
fix this you need to run the update volume command and follow the
prompts.

John

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