Hi,
Thanks for replying, I was afraid you might say something like that!
It does seem strange that such scripting would be necessary, as anyone with
an autoloader must have a similar dilemma.
I guess it's one for the wishlist.
Anyway, if anyone has already written such a script that i can adapt/use,
I'd be grateful, particularly something that can determine the retention
periods, etc. It would not be my strong point.
Thank you.
Dermot.
On 30 March 2010 14:07, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My understanding is that the volumes will never be used/pruned/purged
> > as long as a suitable tape can be found.
>
> That is correct.
>
> > If this is correct, then
> > only when there is no suitable tape in the autoloader, will Bacula
> > start purging these volumes back to Scratch.
>
> I believe so.
>
> > It will be too late at
> > that stage, as the purged volumes will not be in the autoloader, and
> > therefore the backup will sit waiting for a tape to be loaded.
> >
> > What needs to happen for the volumes to be automatically moved to
> Scratch?
> >
> You may have to emulate this functionality with a script that calls
> bconsole and does a manual purge. You would have to basically handle
> the retention period external to bacula. That can be done with a
> combination of database queries and manually echoing commands to
> bconsole.
>
> John
>
>
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