Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Job auto-pruning and automatic volume recycling with disabled pool auto-pruning

2015-02-06 10:34:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Job auto-pruning and automatic volume recycling with disabled pool auto-pruning
From: Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:31:10 -0600
On 2/6/2015 6:52 AM, Heiko Wundram wrote:

> that's not what I meant: I don't want to reclaim parts of a volume, but
> simply that Bacula keeps the (complete) volume until no more jobs are
> stored on it (i.e. no more jobs in the catalog reference the volume),
> and then (and only then) recycles it. I know that this "wastes" space,
> but generally, I do think behaviour like that is useful when you have
> rather small(ish) tapes (as the backup is disk-based, my simulated
> "tapes" are 500MB each, so this kind of usage is perfectly possible
> without lots of wasted space).

I think you can set it up to do one job per volume and sidestep the 
issue altogether.

Dima


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