On 11/05/2015 11:02 AM, Wesley Render wrote:
> 
> In case this helps anyone. I ended up having problems with setting  
> volume limits. For example I suddenly decided to adjust our  
> incremental backups to run every 4 hours, and started reaching volume  
> limits with errors.
> 
>  From what I have read in the documentation setting "Volume Use  
> Duration" will effectively cause new volumes to be created, and old  
> ones to be recycled based on the Volume Retention.  Since I monitor  
> servers disk space and this is just disk based backup, if I get an  
> alert that the storage space on the backup space is filling up I will  
> then look at reducing the retention periods on the volume sets.

FWIW I've been using

Pool {
...
Maximum Volumes = X
Maximum Volume Bytes = Y
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Purge Oldest Volume = yes
Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
}

(where X*Y = 90-ish% of storage disk size) for years without problems.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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