> Not in my experience. AFAICT, all my Bacula installations have always
> checked the use duration of all volumes, and updated the status of
> those volumes who had exceeded it to "Used", at the beginning of every
> job, and on assorted other occasions as well. My guess would be that
> you reduced
Am 25.07.2012 16:57, schrieb Sven Tegethoff:
> On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Have you tried setting volume use duration to 24 hours?
>
> Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used
> status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular
On 07/26/12 02:35, Sven Tegethoff wrote:
> On 25.07.2012 17:50, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> i think we need to understand more about the use cycle for these
>> volumes. Are these weekly tapes written to once per week with a single
>> job or set of jobs, or are they continuously appended to over the
>
On 25.07.2012 17:22, John Drescher wrote:
>> Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used
>> status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular
>> volume, and not at the moment when bacula decides whether to overwrite
>> or to append to the volume.
>>
>
On 25.07.2012 17:50, Phil Stracchino wrote:
i think we need to understand more about the use cycle for these
volumes. Are these weekly tapes written to once per week with a single
job or set of jobs, or are they continuously appended to over the
course of a week?
Let's just take a look at th
On 07/25/12 10:57, Sven Tegethoff wrote:
> On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Now my problem is that bacula always leaves the last tape in
>> "appendable" state, and when the tape gets inserted for its next write
>> cycle, it will not overwrite this tape, but only append to it - even
>>
> Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used
> status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular
> volume, and not at the moment when bacula decides whether to overwrite
> or to append to the volume.
>
Confused. These parameters are set in a text fil
On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Now my problem is that bacula always leaves the last tape in
> "appendable" state, and when the tape gets inserted for its next write
> cycle, it will not overwrite this tape, but only append to it - even
> though the retention period of the tape has ex
On 07/25/12 09:55, Sven Tegethoff wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've tried to wrap my head around automatic volume recycling, but it
> seems that my backup strategy isn't quite compatible with Bacula's
> volume recycling policy, and maybe there's someone out here who knows a
> solution :)
>
> I'm
