Bacula Version 1.36.2.
I am setting Bacula up in a 20 slot tape library environment. I currently
have 3 pools defined. What I want to happen is this:
I will periodically change tapes (about every 2 weeks). When I change
tapes and do the "update slots" command it will now recognize the new tapes
in the library and use those, instead of some tapes that might have
previously been in the library and still were appendable.
What I have noticed happening is that it wants to use tapes that are not in
the library, even though there are blank appendable tapes in the desired
pools in the library. When I look at the volumes I noticed that a lot of
volumes (about half) have the InChanger flag set and also have a slot number
set. I think the reason it might be wanting to use other tapes is because
of the "Volume Use Duration" setting. I took a tape out of the library that
still had room and still met the Volume Use Duration setting. Purely a
guess...
What I would like to see happen is that whenever the Update slots command is
issued that all tapes have their slot set to 0 and their InChanger status
set to out of changer. Then any tape returned from the update slots command
would have the flag and slot set appropriately. Not sure if this is what
is supposed to happen or not, but it does not seem to be working correctly
as is - at least for me.
I am thinking of just writing a simple SQL script that I can run before the
update slots command that will set evertyhing to slot 0 and InChanger to not
in the changer.
For reference here is my pools definition.
# Monthly Full backup pool
Pool {
Name = Monthly_AGK
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes; # Bacula can automatically recycle
Volumes
AutoPrune = yes; # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 4 months #
Volume Use Duration = 14 days # Only allow writes for 14 days from
the first write
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
}
Thanks,
Scott
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