Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 09:14:00
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:10:28 -0400
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours.
>> If you set use duration to a small number # > 0 you will only be able
>> to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration
>> of 0 means infinity (although I could be wrong).
>
> Also remember that even on disk volumes that bacula recycles an entire
> volume at a time. So the jobs written on the first day will be around
> for 60 days but the jobs written on the 59th day will be around for
> less than a day.
>

Sorry for so many emails. I believe to accomplish what you want you
need to make 1 volume per day. Then  you can have a use duration of a
few hours and a 60 day retention

John

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