In anticipation of the holiday weekend (US & Canadian Labo[u]r Day) coming up, I've got a question about how Bacula will handle recycled volumes.
Our configuration has two pools: Full and Incremental. As it happens, most of our tapes are currently in the "Incremental" pool[1]. If Bacula needs more volumes for the Full pool, and the autochanger is loaded with volumes from the Incremental pool that are past their retention period (they are eligible for purging and recycling), will Bacula automatically recycle those "Incremental" volumes into the "Full" pool? Thanks, Mark [1] incremental and differential backups are run nightly, writing to the "Incremental" pool. Full backups are done monthly. This configuration is less than a month old, so most clients haven't done a full backup to the "Full" pool yet. However, when they each did their first incremental, Bacula noted that there was no preceeding full backup, and ran a full backup, writing to tapes in the "Incremental" pool. Thus, there are many more tape volumes in the "Incremental" pool. This will change quickly, as those volumes expire ....assuming that Bacula is smart enough to determine that a client has a full backup in the Full pool, and uses that as the baseline for future incremental backups written to a different pool. Please let me know if my understanding is incorrect, and if Incremental and Differential backups can only be made against a Full that's stored in the same pool (in which case, I need to radically change my volume retention). ---- Mark Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Section of Biomedical Image Analysis 215-662-7310 Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?search=mark.bergman%40.uphs.upenn.edu The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
