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From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula asking for wrong tape.
To: Keith Sudbury <keith AT netzensolutions DOT com>


>> 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...
>
What did/do have for the retention period? And obviously with all the
other tapes marked as purged it will not work.

John



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John M. Drescher

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