>>>>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:36:33 -0800, DMS  said:
> 
> I currently do a full backup on Fridays and then another full backup on
> Saturdays to a set of disks that go offsite and are rotated every few weeks.
> 
> After I put in the new drives with the same mount point and what not, Bacula
> hangs on the jobs saying that the previous volume is not available, which
> makes sense because they are offsite. So every Monday I come into work and
> manually set the Saturday's volumes from Append to Full which solves my
> issue. Is there a way to automate the process of changing the volume status
> to Full?
> 
> I read that you can tell it how long to keep that volume open for

Yes, see the doc for Volume Use Duration.


>                                                                  , but from
> what I saw, the volume needs to be available on the next use before it
> figures out that it needs to create a new one.

Why do you think that?  It isn't true AFAIK.

Also, rather than create a new volume, you can set the Volume Retention so the
volumes are reused.

__Martin

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