It seems like it would be better to not have a Recycle flag set for my
file based pools is that correct?
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:29:18 +0200
"Timo Neuvonen" <timo-news AT tee-en DOT net> wrote:
> "Craig Van Tassle" <cvantassle AT purdue DOT edu> kirjoitti viestissä
> news:20111206123553.4a7046b7 AT purdue DOT edu...
> >I was trying to get a bit of a better grasp of Volume Retention and
> > recycling.
> >
> > For Tapes I understand that after the Job, File and Retention Period
> > the Tape Volume is Marked as Recycled and can be reused again.
> >
> > For Filed. What happenes after Job, File and Retention period
> > expire? Does the file get Deleted or Truncated if the Purge Action
> > is set to Truncate?
> >
> > Also how can I figure out exactly how long a Volume will be saved.
> >
> > For example I want to save my Tape Volumes for a year, My
> > Differentials for 6 months and my Incremental backups for 3 months.
> > I've tried setting the Retention time on those Pools for the correct
> > time but they don't seem to get truncated or deleted after the
> > retention period.
> >
>
> Basically, File and Job Retention operate only on the Catalog to
> reduce the amount of information stored about the past jobs. Volume
> Retention indicates when the volume MAY be recycled, provided
> recycling is enabled for it. The volume status is still shown as
> "full" or "used" and nothing won't happen to the actual tape before
> the volume is really needed for another use (or you put it into a
> shredder), the volume is still kept usable as long as possible. So,
> though a tape volume had a 3 mo retention, nothing is guaranteed to
> happen the day this time expires, but only after the recycling
> algorithm notices it really needs to re-use that spesific tape. And
> if you change the retention periods of the pool after originally
> labeling the volumes, make sure you have "updated" the retention
> periods to the existing volumes too (you may use llist [=long list]
> command to examine the retention periods that are valid to your
> existing volumes)
>
> Truncate option for file volumes should also affect to the actual
> file volume when the period expires. I haven't used it (since I use
> tapes), it probably works nowadays but I think it had a dangerous bug
> in the distant past.
>
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