2009/6/16 Andreas Schuldei <schuldei+bacula-us...@spotify.com>: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:48 AM, francisco javier funes nieto > <esen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Maybe this can help you .. >> >> >> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION001180000000000000000 > > should that even work if we dont use tape but backup to hard disk? > because we dont see it happening. (bacula keeps creating new files and the > old ones seem to be kept around forever.) >
Yes. All media is treated the same as far as recycling is concerned, > perhaps the retention times are to blame? how should the file retention, > job retention and volume retention times be relative to each other? > all of those retention times are long since expired for the earlier files. > If the retention period was changed in the configuration files after the volume was labeled bacula does not automatically apply that to existing volumes. use the update pool command in bacula to force the .conf retention period to the existing volumes. Also list media should be of use John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
