What I'm trying to determine here is a onsite, offsite retention period. For example, when I send the tapes away when should I have them returned to me to add them in a blank tapes pool. I realize that the Pool directive specifies Volume Retention days. Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong? Any advice would be appreciated. JJ
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:06 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] volume expiration dates On 06/15/10 16:34, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: > Does bacula have a mechanism to report when a volume expires? Would be > helpful if I could specify Volume001 expires on Sept 1^st , 2010 so I > can add back into the pools of volumes to be re-used. There is no mechanism in Bacula to set specific individual expiry dates on a per-volume basis, no. That's such a niche need you are the only user so far to have ever asked for it, and may well be the only one ever to ask for it. There is no facility at this time to generate a separate report when a volume expires and is purged, but it's a fairly simple task to create a script that uses the console to generate a regular report of purged volumes. If it keeps a state log of what it has reported in the past, it could equally easily report only newly-pruned volumes. I don't know whether that would meet your reporting needs, though. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
