On 18 Dec 2005 at 19:39, Dihor, Viktor wrote:
> the maijor problem is, that bacula asks for a appendable Volume, istead > of reusing a purged Volume. Try this.... > What you need is this > > Volume Use Duration = > > added to your pool definition where the duration is equal to or less than > your Volume Retention setting, in my case the relevant lines are > > Volume Retention = 6d > Volume Use Duration = 6d > > With this setup, Bacula FINALLY works like I expect and how pretty much > any other backup software I've used on Windows or Unix works. It will > overwrite the tape in the drive, assuming 6 days has passed, it marks the > tape as used and then recycles it, however it only does that at the > beginning of the next job, so the recycling happens at the start of the > current job. Note, you'll have to run the update command as follows > You have to use the "update" command to first update the pool parameters > from the config file and the use "update" again to update the volume > parameters from the pool: > > update -> pool from resource > > update -> volume parameters -> select pool -> select any media -> > all volumes from pool > > Not exactly intuitive because for the latter you have to first select a > volume to reach the "all volumes" option. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
