Re: [Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recycle concepts

2013-07-12 Thread Ana Emília Machado de Arruda
Hi Shon, The question is that bacula needs more than just the "retention period" to recycle volumes when you´re using disk volumes and automatic labeling. If you don´t have a limit of volumes in your pool or something else that tells bacula to not label any more volumes, just use an older one that

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recycle concepts

2013-07-12 Thread John Drescher
> did you remember to update your volumes after changing the pool > definition? Depending on the size of your catalog, recycling can take > quite a while, but still bacula should not create new volumes. I don't > see a "maximum volumes" in your pool def, so basically the number of > volumes in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recycle concepts

2013-07-12 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Mingus Dew wrote: > Dear All, > I am running Bacula Community Edition 5.2.13 on Solaris 10 x86. I am > trying to understand why Bacula doesn't seem to recycle when I think it > should. > I have recently moved to a configuration where each Volume c

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Truncate just broken?

2013-07-12 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/7/11 Mingus Dew > I don't think I've ever gotten it to work under any circumstance, either > manually or automated. > > It is working fine, automatic or manually. I use it on a lot of Bacula deployments without problems. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.n