On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Bill Damage wrote:
> I have 16 tapes in a pool, and each tape takes 2/3 weeks to fill.
> What I really want is Bacula just to rotate through these in
> sequence and ask for tape 1 when tape 16 fills. I have set the pool
> size to 16 but realise there is a problem. If I set the retention
> too small it will keep asking for earlier tapes rather than the next
> numbered one. If I set it too high, none of the tapes will have
> expired - won't it ask me to label a new tape 17 when 16 fills? For
> this pool, I'd really like to know how to just ignore the retention
> periods. Thanks.
Look in the docs, under Pool Resource. Look for something like "Use
Oldest Volume".
That may suit your needs.
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Dan Langille
http://langille.org/
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