Re: [Bacula-users] Properly setting Recycle along with filenames on my USB hard drives.

2007-07-14 Thread Barry L. Bond
Hi again, Arno! Okay, I've been working through this, and changing my bacula-dir.conf file. I restarted my bacula daemons. Tuesday morning is the next backup, so we'll see what changes! :-) >Now you can easily setup the volumes you need - just label them, buy >the tapes and barcode

Re: [Bacula-users] Properly setting Recycle along with filenames on my USB hard drives

2007-07-13 Thread Barry L. Bond
Hi again, Arno! >Oh... I don't feel like going over your configuration in detail now, >sorry ;-) > >The basic setup is rather straight-forward, though: > >Define the pools you need (like one pool for full backups, one for >incrementals). >Determine how long you want to keep the data on the volum

Re: [Bacula-users] Properly setting Recycle along with filenames on my USB hard drives.

2007-07-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 07.07.2007 05:56,, Barry L. Bond wrote:: > Hi Arno! > >> Three possible solutions to your problem: >> 1. (The one I prefer) Don't use volume names representing the contents >> of the volume; Bacula can handle the volume management just fine, so >> there's usually no need for you to interfere,

Re: [Bacula-users] Properly setting Recycle along with filenames on my USB hard drives.

2007-07-06 Thread Barry L. Bond
Hi Arno! >Three possible solutions to your problem: >1. (The one I prefer) Don't use volume names representing the contents >of the volume; Bacula can handle the volume management just fine, so >there's usually no need for you to interfere, and so you don't need >volume names telling about the con

Re: [Bacula-users] Properly setting Recycle along with filenames on my USB hard drives.

2007-07-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 05.07.2007 00:13,, Barry L. Bond wrote:: > Greetings! > > I have a question, regarding how to get bacula to *not* recycle any > volumes, but purge them when they pass a certain age. Bacula does not delete file volumes by itself. (IIRC, there is a feature request, though). Three possib

[Bacula-users] Properly setting Recycle along with filenames on my USB hard drives.

2007-07-04 Thread Barry L. Bond
Greetings! I have a question, regarding how to get bacula to *not* recycle any volumes, but purge them when they pass a certain age. Though I am experimenting with how long to hold jobs and catalogs, what I want is for bacula to write a filename on my USB external hard drives (which are