On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:31 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, McCann, Brian <bmccann AT andmore DOT com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi all.  I've got a configuration issue that's been driving me nuts for 
>> weeks now.  I backup several Windows machines using Bacula, to a large disk 
>> array.  Each workstation gets its own pool.  My problem is that I have the 
>> pool "theoretically" set to keep 15 days of backups, but currently it's got 
>> 26 days of files in it.  Here's a pool configuration:
>>
>> Pool {
>>  Name = ftsstudents2
>>  Use Volume Once = yes
>>  Pool Type = Backup
>>  LabelFormat = "ftsstudents2"
>>  Auto Prune = yes
>>  Volume Retention = 15d
>>  Recycle = yes
>> }
>>
>> I've read the documentation, but for the life of me I can't see why it's not 
>> deleting files/backups older than 15 days.  Can anyone point me in the right 
>> direction and tell me what the heck I'm doing wrong here?  I'm currently on 
>> Bacula 3.0.3.
>>
> You need to limit the volume usage so that the volumes are marked Full
> or Used. Once the volumes are marked Full or Used the retention period
> begins. Since you do not have any of the 4 limiting commands you
> volumes will never recycle:
>
Correction. They will be marked Full when you run out of disk space on
your array. 15 days after that the volumes will be available for
recycling...

John

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