Re: [Bacula-users] All Pruned Jobs don't make the Volume Used/Purged

So....Should I set up (n - 1) days for my retention times?

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:39 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

2011/7/15 Rickifer Barros <rickiferbarros AT gmail DOT com>:

> Hello Users...
>
> Just to confirm one little thing...I've read that Bacula will try keep your
> data as maximum as possible before overwrite them. So, even when my Volume
> Retention Time is expired after the last job, the volume don't become Used
> or Purge, but it still Append. Thereby, for example, in a backup scheme
> where I use one Tape to do 4 differential backups Mon-Thu with a retention
> time of 7 days, I need to set the Maximum Volume Jobs to "4" and the Volume
> Retention to "7 days". So, after 4 Jobs, the volume status is changed to
> "Used" and after 7 days it can be Recycled.
> There's some way to make this using just the Volume Retention or I'm forced
> to use "Maximun Volume Jobs" together?
>

First off make it less than 7 days. Remember the retention period
starts after the last job that marked the tape used or full so 7 days
will prevent the tape from being available at the start time (since
the last time the tape was used it took some time to backup)..

John

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