On 12 Dec 2005 at 22:04, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> A key point mentioned above, that can be a source of frustration, is that
> Bacula will only recycle purged Volumes if there is no other appendable
> Volume available, otherwise, it will always write to an appendable Volume
> before recycling even if there are Volume marked as Purged. This preserves
> your data as long as possible. So, if you wish to "force" Bacula to use a
> purged Volume, you must first ensure that no other Volume in the Pool is
> marked Append. If necessary, you can manually set a volume to Full. The
> reason for this is that Bacula wants to preserve the data on your old
> tapes (even though purged from the catalog) as long as absolutely possible
> before overwriting it.
>
>
> How do I work around this? Other than manually marking all the other tapes as
> full? Since we have 9 or 10 tapes in a rotation and a regular backup does not
> fill the tape completely, I'd have to manually mark the tapes each week, this
> does not lead to an automated backup system... I want something hands off,
> that does not require administrator attention unless something is broken
> (other than changing of the tapes that is).
The following was suggested to me on another list, will this get me around
the problem?
The setting you are looking for is called "Use Volume Duration", it is
discussed in the Bacula Manual. Setting the value to something like 22h
will cause bacula to request a new tape from the autoloader each day,
which is what I believe you are trying to accomplish?
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