I was wondering about this sort of thing earlier and never got a proper answer; let's assume I define a pool for incremental backups. I've got three clients (for the sake of example) and I want to make nightly incremental backups. If I use the example given in the manual, which is more or less what Mihai has, how would that handle multiple clients? Is one backup of one client considered a job? When I backup my three clients on two nights, then, have I filled my incremental pool after only two days? Do I need a pool for each client? The suggestion I received before was to not use a maximum number of jobs per volume, but rather a maximum volume size and let Bacula decide what it wants to do.
Thanks, Kyle Marsh On 6/20/07, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Yah, just went through this one myself had some help for it. Your > retention periods are to short, your running out of volumes before the first > one is set to be recycled. The fix is either more volumes or shorter > retention periods. Your setup is remarkably like mine, if you get stuck i > should be able to help you out. > Hth > Dave. > Oh, forgot once you update your config files load up the bacula console and > do, this is going to take a while depending on how many pools you have, an > update pool and an update volume command for each client, that should fix > it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mihai Tanasescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:40 AM > Subject: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volume problem > > > > 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 ? > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users