Awesome, that was easy and worked perfectly. Thank you so much! > On 21. Feb 2023, at 18:44, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 2/21/23 10:03, Justin Case wrote: >> I have now implemented the retention period settings as described in my last >> email. >> I am aware that the actual volumes do still have the old volume retention >> period “baked in”. >> Question: At what point in the life cycle of a volume is the volume >> retention period updated in the volume itself to the current setting in its >> pool? > > Hello Justin, > > The volume retention `volretention` gets set/updated when a volume is created > in a pool, or when the volume enters a pool. > > For the latter action, an example would be if you use the `ScratchPool` > and/or `RecyclePool` settings in a pool. When Bacula pulls a volume from the > defined Scratch pool and moves it to the backup pool, the volume will inherit > the pool's `Volume Retention` setting - among other things. > > If the volume has the old retention, and never leaves the pool, (without > testing this) I am pretty confident that it will never get the new Volume > Retention setting. > > This is why you need to run the `update volume fromallpools` command when you > make these types of changes to a pool. > > P.S. I always use the `fromallpools` option there since it does not hurt > anything and is easy for me to remember. :) > > > Hope this helps, > Bill > > -- > Bill Arlofski > w...@protonmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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