Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 11:32:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume
From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:28:50 +0200
* John Drescher (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

So I would set MaximumVolumes to 60 and MaximumVolumeJobs to 1? Will 
that automatically create the additional volume files?

Thorsten


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