[Bacula-users] Retention / recycling clarification

[Jeremy Koppel]

Hello,               I’m getting some behavior I didn’t expect while trying to set up a rotation schedule for one of the sites I manage.  They have a single server with a single VS160 tape drive.  I have it run a full backup early Thursday and incrementals fri-wed; and have 2 tapes per pool, which I plan to rotate.  Config is below.               Trouble is, from the ‘list volumes’ command, it looks like Bacula will want to append to the DailyA1 tape, instead of rewinding the tape and overwriting it from scratch.  And I actually had that happen at our main site, too; it kept appending until the backup failed in the middle, asking for a new tape.  How do I get it to really recycle the tape?     Thanks!   --Jeremy Koppel       Shortened output from ‘list volumes’: +---------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | volbytes       | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten  | +---------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ |       1 | DailyA1    | Append    | 33,101,955,019 |       46 |      777,600 |          1 |    0 |              1 | VS160     | 2006-03-01 01:00:32 |     Config:   # ************************* Schedules ************************* Schedule {   Name = "BiweeklyCycle"   Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly thu at 1:00   Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily fri-wed at 1:00 }     # *************************** Pools *************************** Pool {   Name = Daily   Pool Type = Backup   Recycle = yes   AutoPrune = yes   Volume Retention = 9   Accept Any Volume = yes }   Pool {   Name = Weekly   Pool Type = Backup   Recycle = yes   AutoPrune = yes   Volume Retention = 9 days .   Accept Any Volume = yes }