-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I suffered from this and posted a while back about how I solved it.
Without duplicating my post, I found that if I issued a status dir in a run before script, the recycle would occur. I am not usre if the mount command in the scriopt is required or not - but it doesn't do any harm. Here is the script that I have execute - RunBefore directive - that solved this issue for my systems: /etc/bacula/bconsole << END_OF_DATA stat dir mount storage=DDS-3 quit END_OF_DATA Of course your mileage may vary... Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > I have read, and read again the manual, but I still don't understand how > > Bacula manage recycling... > > Last Tuesday I had the Tuesday tape correctly written. > > I have a Volume Retention of 5 days. > > Next Tuesday I expected the Volume to be recycled, instead Bacula appended. > > I am lucky that the Volume has space enough for a second backup to be > > appended, but this is not what I want, as I may risk that next time > > there will not be enough space and the backup will fail requesting a new > > Volume. > > When is Bacula going to see that the retention period has passed, and > > data has to be recycled? > > > > Once someone told me to use the Max Use, and I did it, but Bacula was > > not mounting the device automatically, requesting to manually mount the > > volume because it was in Used state.......and this is not acceptable. > > The fun thing is that when ins Used state, the volume was recycled after > > mount. > > > > Can someone explain me how Bacula is managing recycling?! > > > > Thanx for any help. > > > > <http://www.sonicle.com> > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > > http://www.sonicle.com - -- Dave Dmytriw Principal, NetCetera Solutions Inc. Calgary, AB 403-703-1399 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netcetera-solutions.com "It's about using NetWorks, Etc..." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDhJ1CDcivrcMaKcIRAsbJAJ92XZQcmzzC1GxuwUkcJQUgN/1+HgCfZvwn NLWY+jb/dBDpmjqQn36XITE= =xLvK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
