Hello everyone,
Anyone could help me here ?
Thanks a lot !
Samuel
Le jeu. 23 sept. 2021 à 12:46, Samuel Zaslavsky <s...@w4tch.tv> a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> We have set up a system with a tape library and Bacula to back up /
> archive some NASs. The idea is as simple as possible: no files expire, I
> just have to make sure that in the event of a disaster on a NAS, we will be
> able to recover all the files.
> (So I have a pretty basic knowledge of Bacula, enough to set up this very
> simple project, but didn't need to become an expert ... my apologies in
> advance if I did mistakes or if I talk nonsense :))
>
> So I have "Incremental" jobs that run every night.
> During the summer (and the holidays ...) the tape library found itself
> short of LTO, and for a period of about 15 days, jobs were created and put
> on hold ("Created but not yet running ".)
>
> Naively, I told myself that making LTOs available would solve the problem.
> In a sense, this is the case, because jobs have indeed started up again.
>
> But there is a big but !! It seems that the jobs have rewritten several
> times (as many times as jobs not launched during the period) almost the
> same data ...
> So to my surprise, I still find myself running out of LTO a few days after
> settling the pb.
>
> 1 / So I realize that I should have canceled all the "pending" jobs apart
> from the last one created, is that right? Or if not, how to handle this
> case? (this is important because I am in this case again!)
>
> 2 / How to recover the wasted space (almost 10 LTO8 !!)
> Specifically, how do you go about identifying exactly which volumes /
> jobid are to be "deactivated" and how do you do that? How to end with a
> clean incremental job running smoothly ?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your help!
>
> Samuel
>
>
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