On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:33:48 +0200, Hugo Letemplier <hugo.let...@gmail.com> wrote: > After the job ran many times: I have the following volume <=> job matching > Vol name Level Time > Test1 Full 15:50 > 324 Inc 16:00 > 325 Inc 16:10 > 326 Inc 16:20 > 324 Inc 16:30 > Test2 Full 16:40 > 325 Inc 16:50 > 326 Inc 17:00 > > This is problematic because Vol324 is recycled instead of creating a new > one > I am not sure to understand the various retention periods : File, job, > volume > I think that I can increase the retention times but the problem will > always be the same. > ex : if I keep my incremental one hour then my first ones will always > be purged first > In a good strategy you purge the full sequence of incremental at the > same time because you need to recycle you volume and don't want to > keep a recent volume (incremental) without the previous ones.
You would waste your tape/disk space. > To do that I imagine that I need to create one pool per day and reduce > progressively the retention periods. It doesn't makes sense ! > I turned the problem on all its sides but I cant find a good > solution. Maybe the other retention period are the solution but I > didn't succeeded ? > Thanks in advance That means that your upper backup levels should have greater retentions to be sure that at any time, you can use the full + diff + inc if needed. Keeping incremental without full backup can be useful to restore only specific files. HTH. Jérôme Blion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
