Thanks John,

I went with "Volume Use Duration" and it switched right away to the next 
available volume in the pool. Hopefully, this will fix the problem I've 
created.

Steve

John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Steve Campbell <campbell AT cnpapers DOT 
> com> wrote:
>   
>> I had asked about this ages ago, and thought I had it solved, but
>> apparently not.
>>
>> I use the standard CatalogBackup job that ships with Bacula (old version
>> 2.03), and the size of the Volume that thiis job uses grows to 2GB+. I
>> have reduced the Default Pool Volume Retention to 4 months, but it
>> doesn't seem to want to switch and start using another volume. I'm
>> pretty certain that all my other jobs have retentions less than 4 months.
>>
>> All of the other "standard" daily jobs seem to do just fine and rotate
>> volumes as defined, but the Catalog volume just doesn't seem to behave.
>> Can anyone make  suggestions  as to why this might happen? Is it perhaps
>> tied to other volume retention settings?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Steve Campbell
>>
>>     
>
> Remember a volume must be Full or Used to begin the volume retention
> period. Before that it
> will be appendable and teh retention settings will not make any difference.
>
>
> http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002611000000000000000
>
> UseVolumeOnce = yes.
> Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn.
> Maximum Volume Bytes = mmmm.
> Volume Use Duration = ttt.
>
> Use any of the above for voulme recycling to work. After a volume is
> marked Full or Used the
> retention period will count from the last byte written to the volume.
>
> John
>
>
>   


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