Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-18 14:57:27
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Larry Kemp <Larry.Kemp AT usmetrotel DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:55:03 -0400
> My Question:
>
> I want to know is Bacula is smart enough to see once it goes past the 10 day
> point pruning point, does it know to start reusing the oldest volumes again,
> and only creating additional volumes when absolutely necessary?

That is the way bacula works.

Remember the following rules:

1. bacula will only prune volumes that have the recycle flag on
2. bacula will only prune volumes that are marked full or used
3. the retention period is calculated from the last written time of
the volume not the first usage

John

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