On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:53 PM, sbooth <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> 
wrote:
> I am confused about how to get backup jobs to be automatically removed and 
> for disk files to be recycled and reused for backs.  I created a schedule 
> that runs diff tues-friday morning and two different retention base backups 
> on Saturday morning.  I set the retention of the differentials ot 7 days and 
> 1 base job to retention of 30 days and the other to 90 days.  After the 7 
> days are up for the diff the job still appears in the restore area and the 
> disk file is not recycled.  I haven't gotten to the retention time on the 
> base tapes yet.  I noticed that in the client setups is a retention setting 
> also.  Is this causing the jobs to retain past the time set in the volume 
> settings?
>
Remember bacula will only recycle when it needs a new volume and there
are no appendable volumes in a pool.

John

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