Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-16 10:19:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?
From: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:16:14 +0000 (UTC)
Am Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:19 -0500 schrieb Sean Carolan:

> 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?

maybe change VolumeRetention to 5 days and do an "update volumes from 
resource" (only changing *.conf won't do the trick).

Also change "Use volume once" to "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 "

http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0017150000000000000000

- Thomas


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