>>>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:33:10 +1100, Gary R Schmidt said: > > On 20/03/2020 22:21, Heitor Faria wrote: > > Hello Uwe, > > > > No, it is not. > > VUD will change the volume status to used at its endpoint, making sure > > the VolRetention is applied. > > Bacula volumes selection algo always try to write on last written tape. > > The only when to implement the round-robin tape rotation you want is > > using different pools for each week day. > > > I wonder, would using one pool for Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and > Sunday, and another pool for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday also work?
It can work as long as you set an appropriate VolRetention, but the problem is that you can't guarantee that Monday backups will be written to the same tape every week. For example, if the previous Friday backup failed to run for some reason then Bacula is likely to use the Friday tape on Monday. That might not matter in some setups, but it makes it complicated if you want to remove tapes from the drive/changer and store them offsite. __Martin _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
