Hello,
I've just recently configured bacula to backup some machines and after
4-5 days of doing backups I started getting:
"Cannot find any appendable volumes", although I have the LabelMedia=yes
specified in the storage daemon
My setup looks like this:
For each machine I have a different device defined in my bacula-sd.conf (in
order to make each backup happen in a different directory..and also MediaType
is different for each definition in order to avoid any locking problems).
Each incremental, differential and full backup has its own Pool definition for
each machine and its own settings for Retention.
Example:
Pool {
Name = Diff-Pool-RS
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 40 days
#1 job per volume
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
LabelFormat = "${Job}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Year}-Diff-"
Maximum Volumes = 6
}
Pool {
Name = Inc-Pool-RS
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 6 days
#6 jobs per volume
Maximum Volume Jobs = 6
LabelFormat = "${Job}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Year}-Inc-"
Maximum Volumes = 1
}
Pool {
Name = Full-Pool-RS
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 1 months
#one job per volume
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
LabelFormat = "${Job}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Year}-Full-"
Maximum Volumes = 1
and this is the same for the other servers (with a different ending, instead of
RS)
Schedule {
Name = "WeeklyCycle"
Run = Full 1st sun at 04:00
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 03:00
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 05:00
}
and each Job for each machine uses the three different pools (stated above) and
the default one (it gave an error without defining it)
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
My design was supposed to make:
A full backup on the first week of the month on Sunday.
Incremental backups for a week.
Differential backups each Sunday.
Does anyone have any idea why I keep receiving that error above not being able
to find any appendable volumes ?
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