Thanks for the fast response John. Where can I verify that each volume is set 
to recycle? 

Kern's docs also state that you should make your volumes no bigger than 5 
gigabytes. I have set mine to 20 GB at present. Things seems to be working, but 
should I change my volume max size to 5 GB?

If you set Bacula to automatically create new volumes as it needs them can I 
automatically flag them to recycle? 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 2:55 PM
To: Larry Kemp
Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out 
Of Disk Space

> 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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