On 7/9/19 2:30 PM, William Muriithi wrote: > Hello > > I stated using bacula about 6 months ago. When I originally set it up, I > just specified Volume retention period. The File Retention period, and the > Job Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't > still labelled as ready for recycle. > > Since I have almost used up all the tapes now, I want to re-use the older > once but I am wondering what would be the safest way to ensure I can choose > tapes that will never be needed should I require getting some data from the > backups.? > > Regards, > William
Honestly, if you have inconsistent retention times, you're largely just going to have to figure out for yourself which volumes are safe for you to purge and reuse. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users