Thanks John, I went with "Volume Use Duration" and it switched right away to the next available volume in the pool. Hopefully, this will fix the problem I've created.
Steve John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Steve Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I had asked about this ages ago, and thought I had it solved, but >> apparently not. >> >> I use the standard CatalogBackup job that ships with Bacula (old version >> 2.03), and the size of the Volume that thiis job uses grows to 2GB+. I >> have reduced the Default Pool Volume Retention to 4 months, but it >> doesn't seem to want to switch and start using another volume. I'm >> pretty certain that all my other jobs have retentions less than 4 months. >> >> All of the other "standard" daily jobs seem to do just fine and rotate >> volumes as defined, but the Catalog volume just doesn't seem to behave. >> Can anyone make suggestions as to why this might happen? Is it perhaps >> tied to other volume retention settings? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Steve Campbell >> >> > > Remember a volume must be Full or Used to begin the volume retention > period. Before that it > will be appendable and teh retention settings will not make any difference. > > > http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002611000000000000000 > > UseVolumeOnce = yes. > Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn. > Maximum Volume Bytes = mmmm. > Volume Use Duration = ttt. > > Use any of the above for voulme recycling to work. After a volume is > marked Full or Used the > retention period will count from the last byte written to the volume. > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
