On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM, William <william.voyek AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm currently using Bacula to backup a single server with an internal LTO-1 
> tape
> drive. I backup 5 days a week, full backups. I have 5 tapes that I resuse
> (Monday tape, Tuesday tape, etc.) I would like Bacula to append to the tape
> until it is full. Currently it is overwriting the tape after each use. The
> following appears in each days logs:
>
> Recycled volume "wednesday_full" on device "LTO-1" (/dev/nst0), all previous
> data lost.
>
>
> The tape is 100GB unconpressed / 200GB compressed. I'm only writing ~3GB per
> backup. Theoretically Bacula should be able to write data to the tape for at
> least 30 weeks before needing to overwrite the data. How do I get Baclua to
> behave in the manner I wish (i.e. do not overwrite tapes until absolutely
> necessary)?
>

Not overwriting media is the default behavior. You actually have to
take several steps to get bacula to behave how you are describing.
Please post your bacula-dir.conf file.

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