> > > because bacula has a very complex tape scheduling routines... > Its even more complex. One thing I missed is what happens when a job needs a tape from a pool but all tapes in the pool are marked as Full, Used, Error or Archive. I believe in this case bacula first checks if it can Recycle any tapes then it purges all jobs from the tapes and marks them as Purged and then it will prompt you for one of the tapes it purged following the rules I talked about earlier.
BTW, Here is an example of what I do with bacula on one of my tape drives: At work we use a DLT-IV drive to backup the user public and private folders which are both between 50 and 80GB each. I run both of these independently on a Weekly backup cycle that includes 1 Full backup per month on Sunday @ 23:59, Differentials every 2nd and 5th Sunday with incrementals for mon to sat. I have the Volume retention set at 90 days. In this pool I have 10 DLT-IV tapes in which I keep rotating as bacula asks for the next one. I have been using these same tapes in this way every day for the last 3 years and it has worked quite well. Although, I admit it is very rare that my users ask for me to recover something as the both user folders are on RAID6 arrays that syncs with a second RAID6 array each night. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
