Hello,
I set my volume retention time to one year, but currently I do not have
enough tapes to keep them a year, which means that ultimately Bacula
asks me to label a new tape, which I don't have. So what I do from time
to time is select oldest Volume that is marked Full (or sometimes Error)
and I purge it. For me (may not be your case) the risk that I lose some
valid data is essentially zero because the other volumes have many Full
backups on them. In addition when I have needed to restore data it has
always been to restore the most recent backups.
Obviously the best situation is to have sufficient backup space (either
on disk or tape) to be able to keep backups for the period you specify
as your Volume Retention time.
Best regards,
Kern
On 7/10/19 2:07 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
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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