[Bacula-users] Help with auto purging/pruning

[sbooth <bac...@ba...>]

Hey Steve, 

I had something similar happen to me here, bacula will respect your retention policies, and your volume limit. So if you have 200 files and you have configured a limit of 205, when the next job starts, it will recycle anything it can, use any volume that is purged, then start creating new disk volumes if the current number of volumes is below the maximum allowed. Once you reach that maximum, Bacula will sit there waiting for a usable volume. It will send out email messages to the configured address saying it needs you to create a new volume or make a new volume available. Once you do this, it will continue it's backup with the new volume.
 

Tim


Tim,

I am going to try setting the Volumes Maximum setting and see what happens.  I calculated the number of volumes I think I need and the gave a few spares.

Steve

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