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.


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