Hi
I'm using Bacula since 6 months but I'm still learning how to use the
Recycling Volumes. I do an automated disk backup at 2:00pm from Monday to
Friday of 10 computers.
Lately I'm having problems with extra volumes created in a pool. I'm not
using tapes; I'm using files. I have a pool for each computer with 5 volumes
for each pool (one for day). In the configuration file I use the next
directives in the Pool Resource: LabelFormat, AutoPrune, Recycle, Volume
Retention (set to 6 days) and Maximum Volume Jobs (set to 1)
With my configuration I try to perform a backup of each computer from Monday
to Friday in the way each day and each computer uses its own pool and only
one volume a day until complete 5 volumes in a week so the next week bacula
can recycle the oldest volume which has the volume retention expired.
The problem is that one computer creates extra volumes because the size of
the volume which has to be recycle is greater than 1G.
As I understand, when a job starts running, bacula performs internal
operations to find the next volume to use. If recycle flag is set and the
volume retention is expired, bacula has to recycle the volume and use it
again to keep the actual backup. But, somehow, when the volume is greater
than 1G, bacula has no time to recycle the volume so it creates a new one.
I want to avoid it because of the risk of filling the hard disk. I've tried
to use the Maximum Volumes directive (setting to 5) but when the job starts
running appears a messages:
Intervention needed for...
17-Jul 14:20 i8-sd: Job is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: FileStorage
Media type: File
Pool: Pool
I use the console and realized that the pool has one volume recycled, but
maybe the run command has no time to reuse the volume and the job remains
blocking the next jobs until I use the label command or cancel the job to
run it manually
How can I avoid the extra volumes creation without needing to use the label
or cancel command to run the job?
I hope you can help me
Thanks
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