On Tuesday 14 March 2006 22:18, Patrick Van der Veken wrote: > Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > Are your JOBS set to expire soon enough to recycle the tape? There are > > per-job retention periods to contend with. > > Hi Ryan, > > I do not think this is relevant as the Bacula manual clearly states that > Bacula will always take the shortest of the all retention periods (Job, > File, Volume) into account? In our case, job retention is a year.
This is probably not a very good idea (having a long job retention and shorter volume retention). The problem is that your jobs will not be regularly pruned from your volumes, so when Bacula wants a new volume, none will be purged and it will need to do volume pruning. At that point, with your setup there will be be a lot of work to do, which will slow down backups, and Volume pruning is not guaranteed to completely prune the volume if it exceeds the maximum pruning size that Bacula permits. So failures like you are seeing might occur. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
