On 07/25/12 10:57, Sven Tegethoff wrote:
> On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Now my problem is that bacula always leaves the last tape in
>> "appendable" state, and when the tape gets inserted for its next write
>> cycle, it will not overwrite this tape, but only append to it - even
>> though the retention period of the tape has expired.
>> Sounds so far as though what you need is "Volume Use Duration".
>
> That's what I thought, too :)
>
>>> I thought I could solve the problem by setting the maximum volume use
>>> time to a value that is equal to its retention time - but the volume use
>>> time will only be updated AFTER a job has finished, and never BEFORE a
>>> job gets started. So the first job in the new cycle will always be
>>> appended to last week's backup, no matter what I do.
>> Wait, you said tapes are swapped out every day. Did I misunderstand?
>> Have you tried setting volume use duration to 24 hours?
>
> Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used
> status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular
> volume, and not at the moment when bacula decides whether to overwrite
> or to append to the volume.
i think we need to understand more about the use cycle for these
volumes. Are these weekly tapes written to once per week with a single
job or set of jobs, or are they continuously appended to over the course
of a week?
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