>>>>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:36:33 -0800, DMS said: > > I currently do a full backup on Fridays and then another full backup on > Saturdays to a set of disks that go offsite and are rotated every few weeks. > > After I put in the new drives with the same mount point and what not, Bacula > hangs on the jobs saying that the previous volume is not available, which > makes sense because they are offsite. So every Monday I come into work and > manually set the Saturday's volumes from Append to Full which solves my > issue. Is there a way to automate the process of changing the volume status > to Full? > > I read that you can tell it how long to keep that volume open for
Yes, see the doc for Volume Use Duration. > , but from > what I saw, the volume needs to be available on the next use before it > figures out that it needs to create a new one. Why do you think that? It isn't true AFAIK. Also, rather than create a new volume, you can set the Volume Retention so the volumes are reused. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
