What is stopping bacula from using volume 44??? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and > the like could someone kindly help me with this. > > > > Basically for the local intranet i would like bacula to take a full > back at the first of each month ie (October 1) then incremental each > night until the first of the next month. However I would like a > separate volume for each month and would like to keep 2 months of > volumes. Does this make sense?? how are other doing this?? I think it > is safer to keep 2 volumes in case something goes wrong with the new > one! ie the only existing volume gets pruned purged > recycled/overwritten with a corrupt/incomplete backup or something!! > > > > Here is my problem bacula is auto creating the volumes very nicely > however the first volume gets marked as full hopefully this is due to > the Volume Use Duration setting of 1 month. Is this correct? or should > this get marked as used? did something else happen like a full > harddisk? > > > > The second volume is getting marked as used still hoping this is due > to the Volume Use Duration setting. However wondering why volume one > is full and volume two is used? see below > > > > Pool: PaulD-pool > > > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+ > > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | > VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | > LastWritten | > > > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+ > > | 44 | PaulD-0044 | Full | 1 | 9,442,414,325 | > 2 | 1,900,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PaulD-File | > 2008-10-02 02:42:07 | > > | 57 | PaulD-0057 | Used | 1 | 24,748,595,769 | > 5 | 1,900,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PaulD-File | > 2008-09-30 02:12:52 | > > > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+ > > > > ******HERE IS MY PROBLEM****** > > > > Bacula does not seem to be able to reuse the old volume and keeps > giving me this error why does it not just recycle the first volume > 44?? why is it calling 57 the oldest volume?? > > > > 08-Oct 05:30 miako-dir JobId 1817: Pruning oldest volume > "PaulD-0057" > > 08-Oct 05:30 miako-sd JobId 1817: Job PaulD.2008-10-07_02.05.06 > waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. > > Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: > > Storage: "PaulD-sd" (/usr/local/backups) > > Pool: PaulD-pool > > Media type: PaulD-File > > > From what I see bacula is doing what it is supposed to do. I mean > PaulD-0057 was last written on 2008-09-30 02:12:52 which means it > still has quite a few days left before the retention period expires. > From the docs: > > "The Volume Retention record defines the length of time that Bacula > will guarantee that the Volume is not reused counting from the time > the last job stored on the Volume terminated. A key point is that > this > time period is not even considered as long at the Volume remains > appendable. The Volume Retention period count down begins only when > the Append status has been changed to some othe status (Full, Used, > Purged, ...). " > > http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html > > John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
