Yes, both parameters will honor the retention period.
Sorry, I think I worded it wrongly in my first mail. What I meant was, for
both parameters, bacula won't recyle either current or oldest volume if
there is other appendable volume still available in the pool. I was just
wondering if this applies only to 'Recycle Oldest Volume' parameter only or
to 'Recycle Current Volume' as well.
My interest is to find out if there is a parameter that will recycle a
volume that has fulfilled all the criterias which allows it to be recycled,
for example it has reached the maximum volume jobs, and the retention
period has expires, but, the only thing that prevents it from being
recycled is the existence of other appendable volumes in the pool. I
realized that this has been indicated as the frustration point in bacula
documentation, but you know, in case I missed anything.
As for 'Purge Oldest Volume', I'm not keen to use this parameter as it will
remove the job list from the catalog as well.
Thanks.
--
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Josip Deanovic <djosip+n...@linuxpages.net>
wrote:
> On Monday 2016-10-31 10:21:37 Gi Dot wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to know if I understand these 2 parameters correctly:
> >
> > Recycle Current Volume = yes
> > Recycle current mounted volume in pool.
> >
> > Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
> > Recycle oldest volume in pool.
> >
> > But, for both parameters, bacula still won't recyle either current or
> > oldest volume if there is no other appendable volume available in the
> > pool. Am I right?
>
> Not exactly.
>
> "Recycle Oldest Volume" will recycle the volume honoring the retention
> period.
> It will not recycle the volume unless it has expired even if there
> are no appendable volumes left.
>
> There is another option called "Purge Oldest Volume" which doesn't honor
> the retention period and it will recycle the volume regardless of the
> retention period.
>
> Also, depending on your backup strategy you might find the option "Maximum
> volumes" useful.
>
> --
> Josip Deanovic
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