>>>>> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:57:42 -0800, "Harondel J. Sibble" <[EMAIL >>>>> PROTECTED]> said:
Harondel> On 1 Dec 2005 at 10:37, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Yes, a shorter Volume retention period will "force" pruning of job and file >> data, but as the manual and a recent email point out, after changing the .conf >> volume retention period, you must update the catalog data for volumes that >> already exist. Harondel> Okay, now I am even more confused. My volume retention period is 6 days and Harondel> has always been 6 days, while the job retention period was set for 30 days. Harondel> On day 7, the volumes does NOT auto recycle unless I purge it. Pruning it Harondel> only removes 2 files normally of the 25 or so on the tape. When was the volume last written? All the retention times are counted from the last write time. If you wrote it on day 5, then on day 7 the day 5 backup from was only 2 days old and still within the retention period, hence the tape should not be recycled. I suggest you post the output of "llist volumes". __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- 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
