Rowdy wrote: > I do similar to what Ger indicated (I have 2 hard drives alternating in > an external USB enclosure connected to a box running Bacula under > FreeBSD), but set the status to Used rather than Full.
That sounds good. The volume status update can be automated as a Run Before Job script, i.e. check which volumes are available and mark all other volumes as Used (or Full). But what do I set the status to when I want to re-use the volumes marked as Used or Full before? Will volstatus=Purged result in the database records being purged as soon as the volume is actually being written to or will I be left with a huge pile of orphaned database records after a while? I already experienced that it's no good idea to set volstatus=Append because this will cause Bacula to append to the volume beyond the "Maximum Volume Bytes" setting, which will in turn cause a serious deadlock of Bacula once the USB disk runs out of free space :-/ Or will the volume be purged automatically once the volume retention period has been exceeded? Cheers, Henning Holtschneider -- LocaNet oHG - http://www.loca.net Lindemannstrasse 81, D-44137 Dortmund tel +49 231 91596-25, fax +49 231 91596-55 sip [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
