On 16 Jun 2006 at 14:25, Bill Moran wrote: > > I'm responding to my own post and snipping all of it out. If you want the > details follow the thread backwards, otherwise, read on. > > Did some refresher reading this morning, and this section of the docs was > particularly helpful: > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html > > The gist of it is that Bacula does not perform a pruning operation unless > it must do so to free up a volume. In other words, as long as there are > volumes available, Bacula doesn't autoprune. > > Makes perfect sense why my rotation volumes never got recycled, there were > plenty of other volumes in the pool that had never been used.
It also means that Bacula is following the strategy of "keep backups as long as possible". IMHO, that is The Right Thing To To(tm). -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
