Brock - I've posted a number of times about Always Incremental configurations and issues. Specific to the question you asked, I would start here ... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bareos-users/KJAM5xDL2Ko
I have my volume retention on both the AI-Incremental pool and the AI-Consolidated pool set to 1 year. If your consolidation is working properly you'll never have a volume approach anywhere near that before it is recycled. If your consolidation isn't working properly this long retention will prevent you from unknowingly blowing away your only copy of critical backup data. My thought is that I'd rather run out of storage space than lose backup data. Volume retention time is based on the last 'write'. However the retention is only applied/meaningful if there is still data on that volume. If a volume in purged (no longer contains any data) it is available to recycle regardless of the retention period. If consolidation is working correctly, data is moved off of multiple source volumes onto one or more destination volumes during the consolidation process. Once the source volume(s) are empty (i.e. no catalog entries pointing to them) they are recycled as space is required for future backup operations. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/e68dda2e-fe15-455e-b822-bb5cd14789d0%40googlegroups.com.
