On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
<rr_rosas AT yahoo.com DOT br> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to bacula and trying to set it up for our environment.
>
> We are a small office with not too data to backup. I mean, a single 200
> GB tape would do the job perfectly, as today.
>
> But I have a problem and couldn't find the solution reading Bacula's
> manuals.
>
> There is a folder I need to backup containing mbox files, among other
> folders. I need to retain the mail folder (about 5GB currently) for two
> days only, one full backup per day, while I need to retain the other
> folders for about 5 months.
>
> Reading the manuals, I found out that setting the file retention or job
> retetion doesn't delete the files on media, as I wanted.
>
> So it seems to me that if I wanted the desired result, I would need to
> define 2 pools using the same tape, so that I can configure different
> Volume Retentions.
>
> Is that right? It doesn't seem logic to me, as a pool is supposed to
> support multiple volumes or tapes and this configuration would give me a
> tape containing 2 pools...
>
You can only have 1 pool per tape. And a volume/tape will only be
recycled in its entirety.

> Please, tell me what would be the better approach to my problem...
>
Too busy right now with the paying job. If I have time I will look at
this more closely later.

John

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