John Drescher wrote:
>> Ok but how will i get bacula to want to use the friday2 tape? if i restart
>> the daemon i think it will "forget" about the job tbh.
>>
>>     
> This can work (I have had a sequence backup for the last 3 or so
> years) but you need to adjust your retention times so that the only
> tape that is appendable is the next sequence tape. You also need to
> set the volume use duration to probably 1 day.  Note that the
> retention time starts only after the tape is marked Used or Full so
> the volume use duration looks like a good fit. Also, I believe this
> means you need a 26 day retention time on your media. After changing
> both of these in your configuration you still need to use update
> volume to set the retention time on all the labeled tapes. You also
> need to set all the tapes but the one you currently need to used and
> manually purge only the tape needed each week until 1 complete cycle
> has elapsed. After this everything should be automatic...
>
>   
This seems to have happened after I changed the config to          use 
volume once = yes

Hum...

>> Am i doing this the wrong way adding all the friday tapes to the same pool? 
>> should i create  a different pool for each friday job?
>>     
>
> That could be done.
>
> John
>   


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