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 ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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