Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full

2019-07-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
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)

Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full

2019-07-10 Thread Heitor Faria
> Hello Hello William, > 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. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full

2019-07-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
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 lab

[Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full

2019-07-09 Thread William Muriithi
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 u