My reason for setting "Max Volume jobs=1" is that migrations will not occur 
unless a tape is marked full, used, or error. To shorten the backup window, I 
back up to striped SSDs, and from there migrate onto tape. Setting max jobs to 
1 ensures that last disk volume is marked "used", rather than "append". I 
couldn't think of an easier way to do this than setting max jobs to 1; what is 
the preferred way to do it?

My pool definition is:

Pool {
        Name = tempDisk-pool
        Pool Type = Backup
        Recycle = yes
        AutoPrune = yes
        Volume Retention = 5 days       # We want to recycle this thing next 
week
        Maximum Volume Bytes = 100G
        Maximum Volumes = 20            # not all of them have to be full 
sized??
        Maximum Volume Jobs = 1         # migrations will not occur unless 
volume marked full,used,error.
                                        # append won't migrate to prevent 
attempts to read & write simultaneously
                                        # last volume in set will be 'append', 
unless it's only allowed one job
        Volume Use Duration = 23 hours
        Recycle Oldest Volume = yes     # This one respects retention times
        Label Format = "tempDisk-"
        Action on Purge = Truncate
        Storage = File1
        Next Pool = weeklyMain-LTO5-pool
}

Thanks for looking at this,
Dan Stieneke
IT Specialist
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net>
Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 2:45 PM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] MANY duplicate "Max Volume jobs=X exceeded" 
messages in log

On 10/1/18 4:32 PM, Stieneke, Dan wrote:
> 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04LTS using distro-packaged Bacula, v9.0.6.
>
>
> Backing up to 100G disk volumes, max job=1, I get 107 lines in the
> output for each volume:
> ============================================================================================================
>
> 01-Oct 12:47 <SERVERNAME>-dir JobId 23: Max Volume jobs=1 exceeded.
> Marking Volume "<VOLNAME>-0056" as Used.
> ============================================================================================================
>
> The 100G disk volumes are **107**,374,158,233 bytes long, so every ~1GB
> the message appears. I'd much rather have only one warning than 107.
>
> Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere?


Please include your Pool definition.  It looks as though you have
misunderstood and misconfigured something, but without seeing your
configuration we can only make guesses as to what.

That said, "Max Volume jobs=1" is USUALLY a bad idea unless you have
specific reasons for doing it that way.


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