--- On Wed, 4/21/10, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: "Joseph Spenner" <joseph85...@yahoo.com> > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 11:38 AM > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-dir JobId > 175: Start Backup JobId 175, > Job=DefaultBackupClient.2010-04-17_23.05.00_23 > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-dir JobId 175: Max configured use > duration exceeded. Marking Volume "disk_0005" as Used. > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-dir JobId 175: Recycled volume > "disk_0006" > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-dir JobId 175: Using Device > "FileStorage" > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-sd JobId 175: Recycled volume > "disk_0006" on device "FileStorage" (/opt/bacula/volumes), > all previous data lost. > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-sd JobId 175: Job write elapsed > time = 00:00:01, Transfer rate = 0 Bytes/second > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-dir JobId 175: Bacula backula-dir > 5.0.1 (24Feb10): 17-Apr-2010 23:05:04 > > .. > > .. > > It mentions above "all previous data lost" on > disk_0006 > > But later in the messages, I see: > > > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-sd JobId 176: Volume "disk_0006" > previously written, moving to end of data. > > 17-Apr 23:05 backula-sd JobId 176: Ready to append to > end of Volume "disk_0006" size=621 > > > > I checked the file sizes of the files, and they > continue to grow every night. I would expect an > incremental file to be very small, but this is not what I'm > seeing. > > > > Or is this normal? > > > > From your logs It looks like it did not grow. I mean at job > 175 it > recycled the disk_0006 volume purging all jobs on the > volume and > setting its size to zero. After that it continued job 175 > and then ran > 176 on that volume. > > John >
Here are the file sizes (in date order): 7009019184 Apr 14 23:21 disk_0003 51149798 Apr 15 23:10 disk_0004 51159533 Apr 16 23:10 disk_0005 51167844 Apr 17 23:10 disk_0006 51177531 Apr 18 23:10 disk_0001 51182974 Apr 19 23:10 disk_0002 There shouldn't be 51M+ of updates every night, since these systems are not doing too much. ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users