> Remember that the retention period does not even begin until the tape
> is marked Full or Used. And then after it is marked Full or Used the
> period is calculated from the LastWrittenDate on the volume (stored in
> the database).
>
> If you want to control how long a volume is used bacula has a few
> directives that limit the use duration and the number of jobs and
> total bytes written. When these limits are reached a volume will
> marked Used and the retention period will begin.

Also remember that changing these limits in bacula-dir.conf does not
apply the change to existing volumes. You need to use bconsole to
"update pool from resource" then "update all volumes in pool" to apply
the config changes to existing volumes.

John

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