Rick Sterling wrote:
> How can I configure Bacula to just use whatever tape is in the drive
> and overwrite it when a job is scheduled to occur? I want to have it
> this way so if someone forgets to change the tape I will still have a
> backup.
I'm still learning Bacula, but I think the solution is to set your
volume retention time to something shorter than your backup period.
Assume you do backups every night at 10:00 PM (24 hours apart): use a 20
hour expire time, and turn on auto job pruning (keeps your catalog
small) and auto recycling (lets you reuse expired volumes).
When the next backup window rolls around (more than 20 hours after the
last one), Bacula will (in short):
* Start your new job that needs to use a tape volume
* Read the label on the volume (tape)
* Query the database to learn about the jobs on the tape
* Prune the record of the jobs from the database, because they're
old enough
* Change the tape's status to "Purged"
* Run new jobs using the existing tape
If I'm wrong, I hope a bacula expert can correct me.
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SourceGear LLC
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