Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs and tape selection

2008-07-17 01:49:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs and tape selection
From: rgh <birrachiara AT tin DOT it>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:49:18 +0200
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I have 2 tapes in a pool.
> Tape1 and Tape2
> I have 3 jobs that run one after the other on a daily schedule.
> The 3 jobs take up less than one tape of storage.
> On the first day, the 3 jobs run and write to Tape1
> On the second day, the same 3 jobs run, but I want them to go to Tape2.
> On the third day, I want it to purge Tape1 and write to Tape1 again.
> On the forth day, I want it to purge Tape2 and write to Tape2 again.

I use the "volume use duration" directive for a similar setup. If you 
set it to something long enough to complete the backup, but not to much 
to overlap the next run time, everything should work.
Note: the use duration is counted starting when the tape is written, not 
from job start.

Riccardo

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