You can use ...

PurgeOldestVolume = yes

... in the Pool definition but take care; here's from the Bacula Main
Reference: "However, if you use this directive and have only one Volume in
the Pool, you will immediately recycle your Volume if you fill it and Bacula
needs another one. Thus your backup will be totally invalid. Please use this
directive with care". 


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Carolan [mailto:scarolan AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: 16 March 2010 01:01
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Due to disk space limitations I would like to re-use the same volumes
> each week for a single full backup.  Every time I try to run a new
> job, I get an error stating that bacula cannot find any append-able
> volumes.  It has been over six days since my last backup.  Anyone know
> how to make bacula re-use the same volumes, overwriting or deleting
> the old backups each week?

Update - I was able to purge the old volumes manually, am just curious
whether bacula can prune them automatically, and also load the labeled
volumes (tapes) in the tape changer.

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