On 03.03.2016 13:08, David Westfall wrote: > Hi, I am new to Bareos but have been using Bacula for years. > > Try adding to your Pools the following: > > File Retention = 8 days > Job Retention = 8 days > Recycle Oldest Volume = yes > > Recycle Oldest Volume = yesno > This directive instructs the Director to search for the oldest used Volume > in the Pool when another Volume is requested by the Storage daemon and none > are available. The catalog is then pruned respecting the retention periods of > all Files and Jobs written to this Volume. If all Jobs are pruned (i.e. the > volume is Purged), then the Volume is recycled and will be used as the next > Volume to be written. This directive respects any Job, File, or Volume > retention periods that you may have specified, and as such it is much better > to use this directive than the Purge Oldest Volume. > > This directive can be useful if you have a fixed number of Volumes in the > Pool and you want to cycle through them and you have specified the correct > retention periods. > > However, if you use this directive and have only one Volume in the Pool, you > will immediately recycle your Volume if you fill it and Bacula needs another > one. Thus your backup will be totally invalid. Please use this directive with > care. The default is no. > > http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html The right url to look at is of course:
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