--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net> wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:02 PM > On 04/22/10 17:47, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net> > wrote: > > > >> > >> Joseph, > >> > >> That looks much better. Now your volumes > have the > >> correct nine days > >> retention time for your desired ten-day cycle, > instead of > >> zero, so your > >> jobs will actually be kept around instead of being > pruned > >> as soon as > >> they complete. (That's why you were always > seeing "No > >> prior job found".) > >> > >> I suggest you now purge and recycle all of your > existing > >> volumes so that > >> you're starting over from a clean slate, let it > run, and > >> see how it > >> goes. Right now, you have only one > appendable > >> volume. > >> > >> > > > > I am still testing, using "run" at the bconsole, and > selecting: > > 2: BackupCatalog > > > > I've run it a few times in one hour, and I see it > appending the backup to the same volume. Is this > because the runs are happening too fast (same cycle)? > The setting: > > > > Volume Use Duration = 23h > > > > responsible? > > Yes. That setting says the volume is to remain > writeable for 23 hours > from the time it is first written. If you look back > at the job results > you posted earlier, you'll see that each day, the three > jobs you ran > were all written to the same volume, but the next day, when > the next set > of jobs ran 24 hours after you first wrote to the volume, > the use > duration was exceeded and Bacula had to recycle the next > volume and use > it. All of this is exactly what should be happening. >
Ok, thanks for the great help guys. Makes sense. I'm getting there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users