Re: [Bacula-users] Imitate Veritas behaviour

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Debelius
Forget what I just said. I always get the overwrite period, and the append period mixed up. I am talking about the overwrite period. VolumeUseDuration starts the time window from the first write to the tape. This is similar to the backup exec "append period" The "overwrite period" in backu

Re: [Bacula-users] Imitate Veritas behaviour

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How is that different from VolumeUseDuration (are you saying only that you wish the clock started counting from the end of the backup? if so, that is sort of easily kludged around by adding the backup time to this window). Or are you talking about the

Re: [Bacula-users] Imitate Veritas behaviour

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Debelius
I'm not sure this is possible without some kind of admin job that you would run before the backups to see what tape is still in the drive. Then your admin job would do the house keeping necessary to reuse the tape. Another Vertias feature I like that bacula does not have is the append period.

Re: [Bacula-users] Imitate Veritas behaviour

2007-07-15 Thread Guy Zürcher
Anybody? Guy Zuercher wrote: > Hello List, > >my company is using bacula for quite a while and we find it is a > really cool piece of software! So thanks to Kern and everybody else > involved. > > I would like to know if anybody managed to imitate the behaviour of > Veritas as close as p

[Bacula-users] Imitate Veritas behaviour

2007-07-11 Thread Guy Zuercher
Hello List, my company is using bacula for quite a while and we find it is a really cool piece of software! So thanks to Kern and everybody else involved. I would like to know if anybody managed to imitate the behaviour of Veritas as close as possible for the following scenario: - Custome