Am 15.08.2012 21:13, schrieb Conrad Lawes:
> At my company, we store  our backup tapes offsite with a storage provider.  
> We have 28-day retention policy for  weekly backups.  May times I not sure 
> which tapes Bacula will need for the coming weekly schedule.  As a result, I 
> oftentime have to manually  change the volume status  in the autochanger so 
> that Bacula completes the weekly backup jobs.
> Is there a way to query the bacula catalog to determine the tapes that Bacula 
> will need for the next weekly backup?  

It works the other way round. Bacula decides which tape to use upon
seeing which tapes are available.

So you should
1. configure the tape's retention parameters so that Bacula knows it may
use the tape
2. load the tape into the changer and update slots
3. let Bacula decide to use that tape.

If step 3 fails, you've done something wrong in step 1. :-)

HTH
T.

-- 
Tilman Schmidt
Phoenix Software GmbH
Bonn, Germany


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