So....Should I set up (n - 1) days for my retention times?
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:39 PM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/7/15 Rickifer Barros <rickiferbar...@gmail.com>:
> > Hello Users...
> >
> > Just to confirm one little thing...I've read that Bacula will try keep
> your
> > data as maximum as possible before overwrite them. So, even when my
> Volume
> > Retention Time is expired after the last job, the volume don't become
> Used
> > or Purge, but it still Append. Thereby, for example, in a backup scheme
> > where I use one Tape to do 4 differential backups Mon-Thu with a
> retention
> > time of 7 days, I need to set the Maximum Volume Jobs to "4" and the
> Volume
> > Retention to "7 days". So, after 4 Jobs, the volume status is changed to
> > "Used" and after 7 days it can be Recycled.
> > There's some way to make this using just the Volume Retention or I'm
> forced
> > to use "Maximun Volume Jobs" together?
> >
>
> First off make it less than 7 days. Remember the retention period
> starts after the last job that marked the tape used or full so 7 days
> will prevent the tape from being available at the start time (since
> the last time the tape was used it took some time to backup)..
>
>
>
> John
>
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