Flak Magnet wrote: > On Wednesday 05 December 2007 8:46:24 am Damian Brasher wrote: > > >> Thanks, this has started off last night missed jobs, however I have this >> message and still do not fully understand why the tape moves to the end >> of the last backup instead of starting from the beginning of the tape... >> > > I think it's because the volume is appendable, and bacula generally tries to > avoid purging volumes as long as it can avoid doing so. That's a part of the > design philosophy even though it's counter-intuitive. All of the retention > settings tell bacula when it MAY recycle volumes that have had all jobs > purged from them, not when it MUST. By holding off on recycling volumes > bacula keeps your data in the volumes as long as possible, providing > more "fall-back positions" in case of "Oh $excrement" situations. >
:) The design philosphy makes a great deal of sense. Have used a Use Duration directive to set tapes to 'used' status after use. many Thanks Damian -- Damian Brasher Systems Admin/Prog OMII-UK ECS Southampton University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
