Hi,

05.07.2007 00:13,, Barry L. Bond wrote::
> Greetings!
> 
>      I have a question, regarding how to get bacula to *not* recycle any
> volumes, but purge them when they pass a certain age.

Bacula does not delete file volumes by itself. (IIRC, there is a 
feature request, though).

Three possible solutions to your problem:
1. (The one I prefer) Don't use volume names representing the contents 
of the volume; Bacula can handle the volume management just fine, so 
there's usually no need for you to interfere, and so you don't need 
volume names telling about the contents.
2. Use a script that runs regularly, scans for expired files, deletes 
them from the catalog, and deletes the files themselves. This requires 
duplicating some of your setup in that script, which I wouldn't like.
3. Manually delete volumes from the catalog and corresponding files 
from time to time. This is error prone and requires more work than 
strictly necessary.

>      Though I am experimenting with how long to hold jobs and catalogs,
> what I want is for bacula to write a filename on my USB external hard
> drives (which are holding the backups) and keep that filename/volume for
> some time threshold (I'm currently set to 220 days), and then get rid of
> that (old) volume/file name, as it constantly writes new ones.
> 
>      Also, in my four email messages a week regarding my bacula backup, it
> used to, MOST of the time (but not always) write a new volume (file name,
> in my case).  But, now, it ALWAYS recycles them.

Looks like the volume setup and requirements kind of converged - good.

Also, keep in mind that the label format directive will probably 
vanish some time in the future.

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
www.its-lehmann.de

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