Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Count Based Retention

2008-08-14 11:41:42
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Count Based Retention
From: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
To: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:39:46 +0100 (BST)
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

> Are you speaking from experience with Bacula? Bacula is very reluctant
> to recycle any data, especially if there are no current backups.

As evidence for that I discovered bacula was refusing to recycle a couple
of tapes long past their expiry because they had the only copies of a
fileset backup I'd stopped dealing with over 2 years ago....

AB


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