Troy Daniels schrieb: > > Bacula doesn't mark a volume used at the exact time you specified as > this would require it to be constantly checking for expired volumes > which isn't necessary. > > Rather, it'll mark it used as soon after the expiry time as it notices > it. Normally this is the next time it goes to check that volume to see > if it's still usable. (Either because it's about to start a backup, or > someone has done a status dir and listed jobs that might need that volume) > > In your case, I suspect your nightly admin job failed to do this check > because you probably have incrementals scheduled between your > differential jobs. Bacula would only check the tapes it had scheduled > for the next 'set' of jobs (ie Your incremental jobs for that evening) > > You can change this by updating your admin job to do 'status dir days=7' > which will make it pay attention to the future differential jobs as well.
I was not precise enough, I do a 'status dir days=4'. But last weekend the full job was scheduled, so bacula didn't check the diff volumes. I'll change this to 'status dir days=14', this should work as expected. Thanks, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
