Anybody?
Guy Zuercher wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> my company is using bacula for quite a while and we find it is a
> really cool piece of software! So thanks to Kern and everybody else
> involved.
>
> I would like to know if anybody managed to imitate the behaviour of
> Veritas as close as possible for the following scenario:
>
> - Customers do full backups in multiple jobs every night
> - Customers sometime forget to change the tape, so it shall be
> "overwritten" in that case
> - Sometimes customers take out the "monthly" tape and put it away
> - Some customers have autochanger's, some just a normal TapeDrive
> but i think that does not matter for this question
>
> Now the behaviour of most commercial backup applications (like Veritas)
> is to overwrite the tape in case it has been left in the drive from the
> previous day. Only if the tape is overwritten, the records are being
> purged from the database otherwise the configured retention periods apply.
>
> I tried to imitate this behaviour with Bacula v1.36, v1.38 and v2.01
> without success. Here is the relevant config of a simple DLT drive.
>
> Pool {
> Name = WeeklyPool
> Pool Type = Backup
> AutoPrune = yes
> Volume Retention = 15h
> Volume Use Duration = 15h
> Recycle = yes
> Recycle Current Volume = yes
> Maximum Volumes = 0
> }
>
> This works nicely, but obviously the only gotcha is, that records are
> being purged from the database every 15 hours (daily). But without
> specifying "Volume Retention" AND "Volume Use Duration" together it does
> not work either.
>
> I thought of using "Maximum Volume Jobs", but this is unhandy, since the
> database has to be adjusted every time a job is added or deleted.
> Another option would be to set AutoPrune to no and drop the records
> manually. The best directive would probably be "Use Volume Once", but
> this is to be deprecated.
>
> I am looking for some lean solution without helper scripts, cronjobs and
> just one pool.
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