> My understanding is that the volumes will never be used/pruned/purged > as long as a suitable tape can be found.
That is correct. > If this is correct, then > only when there is no suitable tape in the autoloader, will Bacula > start purging these volumes back to Scratch. I believe so. > It will be too late at > that stage, as the purged volumes will not be in the autoloader, and > therefore the backup will sit waiting for a tape to be loaded. > > What needs to happen for the volumes to be automatically moved to Scratch? > You may have to emulate this functionality with a script that calls bconsole and does a manual purge. You would have to basically handle the retention period external to bacula. That can be done with a combination of database queries and manually echoing commands to bconsole. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
