> Thank you for taking the time to explain this. > You are welcome. > > I want to make sure I have understood this correctly before I proceed: > > 1. change the retention period for my "desktop" pool from 3 months to 1 week > in the bacula-dir.conf file so that it is applied to new volumes in future. > > 2. In bconsole -> update-> Pool from resource -> desktop ( to update > existing volumes only in the desktop pool). > > 3. In bconsole select volumes (desktop pool) and mark them Full or Used. Then > the 1 week retention period start from the time the volume gets FULL. > > 4. After 1 week the jobs on this tape will expire and the FULL backup of the > clients will automatically kick in. >
No jobs will expire and a full backup will not automatically kick in. Both of these will happen some time after the volume is recycled. See my answer to the next question. > > 5. Once the tape is expired it is not recycled automatically. If there is > another tape in the APPEND status in the pool it will use that tape. Only if > next time bacula needs a volume and has none in the append state it will use > the tape with expired retention period. > After a volume is recycled all jobs on that volume are expired. If the next incremental or differential backup is scheduled for a client and there are no full backups left the differential or incremental will be promoted to a full backup. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
