In response to "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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).
I agree. The problem was that Bacula wasn't aware of what was truly possible, which was a result of an inaccurate configuration on my part. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
