2009/4/1 Arch Willingham <a...@tuparks.com>: > The vast majority of our data backup is handled by Bacula and other backup > software putting stuff on different hard drives. We have a small amount of > data that we put on tape and take off site. I’d like to be able to have a > secretary walk in on Monday, pull out the old tape and pop in the new > tape….no logging in, no nothing. The tape would only get written on Friday > night and would stay in there the rest of the week. > > > > I’d like Bacula to basically say “I don’t care what’s in that tape drive, > I’m going to write to it”. We recirculate four tapes. > > > > I have read the manual until I am about to croak but all that volume > labeling, pools, etc leaves me scratching my head. Any ideas? > > > Make Volume Use Duration be the maximum backup time if you have more than 1 job.
Othewise use the Use Volume Once = yes or perhaps Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn Then Recycle Current Volume = yes http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
