Re: [Bacula-users] requesting old volume.
I have 4 pools total, two pools defined by me: Offsite and Onsite and two that I believe are default to Bacula: Catalog and Scratch. Offsite retention period is 6 months, Onsite is 3 months. Once a volume is marked full from Onsite the volume goes on the shelf to the back of the stack. With our offsite volumes, full tapes are sent away and returned 3 months later, leaving us 3 more months on the shelf before the tapes are rewritten. Once the expiration date is met (calculated from last written date + 3 months for onsite, + 6 months from offsite) they are available to be reused. They do not necessarily go back into the same pool they were previously used since I allocate them all to 'scratch' after issuing 'label barcodes' Any errors in my process? No that seems fine. I thought you were rotating volumes weekly or similar that could be easily automated using even/odd week pools or similar.. With your procedure things should be fine as long as you make sure that volumes only go offsite if they are marked full or used. This way bacula will not ask for volumes that are unavailable. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] requesting old volume.
Bacula is asking for a volume that is no longer in the changer because it was marked as full and sent offsite. As you can see the volume was last written to on July 9th. Current snippet for this volume 'list media pool=Offsite' below. 103 | KL0451 | Append| 1 | 163,962,667,008 | 172 | 15,552,000 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO2 | 2010-07-09 17:22:05 | What is the best way to resolve this issue? Thanks, Jeremiah -Original Message- From: Bacula [mailto:r...@monk.microslu.washington.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:04 AM Subject: Bacula Message 21-Jul 10:03 bacula01-sd JobId 393: Invalid slot=0 defined in catalog for Volume KL0451 on Drive2 (/dev/nst1). Manual load may be required. 21-Jul 10:03 bacula01-sd JobId 393: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 1 command. 21-Jul 10:03 bacula01-sd JobId 393: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 1, result: nothing loaded. 21-Jul 10:03 bacula01-sd JobId 393: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 1 command. 21-Jul 10:03 bacula01-sd JobId 393: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 1, result: nothing loaded. 21-Jul 10:03 bacula01-sd JobId 393: Warning: mount.c:221 Open device Drive2 (/dev/nst1) Volume KL0451 failed: ERR=dev.c:491 Unable to open device Drive2 (/dev/nst1): ERR=No medium found -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] requesting old volume.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Bacula is asking for a volume that is no longer in the changer because it was marked as full and sent offsite. As you can see the volume was last written to on July 9th. Current snippet for this volume 'list media pool=Offsite' below. 103 | KL0451 | Append | 1 | 163,962,667,008 | 172 | 15,552,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO2 | 2010-07-09 17:22:05 | Inchanger and slot are both 0 which is good. I think there is a directive for bacula to prefer volumes that are in the changer versus offsite. I am not sure though. I do not move volumes offsite and I also have a very long retention. What is the best way to resolve this issue? Well the quick hack is to mark that volume full by using update volume status. How often do you move volumes offsite? Can you explain the policy a little bit? I am thinking you want more than one Offsite pool and rotate the pools when you swap out volumes. If you do this monthly or something like that you can have your schedule do the rotation of the pools. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] requesting old volume.
John, I have 4 pools total, two pools defined by me: Offsite and Onsite and two that I believe are default to Bacula: Catalog and Scratch. Offsite retention period is 6 months, Onsite is 3 months. Once a volume is marked full from Onsite the volume goes on the shelf to the back of the stack. With our offsite volumes, full tapes are sent away and returned 3 months later, leaving us 3 more months on the shelf before the tapes are rewritten. Once the expiration date is met (calculated from last written date + 3 months for onsite, + 6 months from offsite) they are available to be reused. They do not necessarily go back into the same pool they were previously used since I allocate them all to 'scratch' after issuing 'label barcodes' Any errors in my process? Again, thanks for your reply. JJ *show pools Pool: name=Catalog PoolType=Backup use_cat=1 use_once=0 cat_files=1 max_vols=0 auto_prune=1 VolRetention=1 year VolUse=0 secs recycle=1 LabelFormat=*None* CleaningPrefix=*None* LabelType=0 RecyleOldest=0 PurgeOldest=0 ActionOnPurge=0 MaxVolJobs=0 MaxVolFiles=0 MaxVolBytes=0 MigTime=0 secs MigHiBytes=0 MigLoBytes=0 JobRetention=0 secs FileRetention=0 secs Pool: name=Offsite PoolType=Backup use_cat=1 use_once=0 cat_files=1 max_vols=0 auto_prune=1 VolRetention=6 months VolUse=0 secs recycle=1 LabelFormat=*None* CleaningPrefix=*None* LabelType=0 RecyleOldest=0 PurgeOldest=0 ActionOnPurge=0 MaxVolJobs=0 MaxVolFiles=0 MaxVolBytes=0 MigTime=0 secs MigHiBytes=0 MigLoBytes=0 JobRetention=0 secs FileRetention=0 secs Pool: name=Onsite PoolType=Backup use_cat=1 use_once=0 cat_files=1 max_vols=0 auto_prune=1 VolRetention=3 months VolUse=0 secs recycle=1 LabelFormat=*None* CleaningPrefix=*None* LabelType=0 RecyleOldest=0 PurgeOldest=0 ActionOnPurge=0 MaxVolJobs=0 MaxVolFiles=0 MaxVolBytes=0 MigTime=0 secs MigHiBytes=0 MigLoBytes=0 JobRetention=0 secs FileRetention=0 secs Pool: name=Scratch PoolType=Backup use_cat=1 use_once=0 cat_files=1 max_vols=0 auto_prune=1 VolRetention=1 year VolUse=0 secs recycle=1 LabelFormat=*None* CleaningPrefix=*None* LabelType=0 RecyleOldest=0 PurgeOldest=0 ActionOnPurge=0 MaxVolJobs=0 MaxVolFiles=0 MaxVolBytes=0 MigTime=0 secs MigHiBytes=0 MigLoBytes=0 JobRetention=0 secs FileRetention=0 secs -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:36 AM To: Jeremiah D. Jester Cc: bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] requesting old volume. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Bacula is asking for a volume that is no longer in the changer because it was marked as full and sent offsite. As you can see the volume was last written to on July 9th. Current snippet for this volume 'list media pool=Offsite' below. 103 | KL0451 | Append | 1 | 163,962,667,008 | 172 | 15,552,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO2 | 2010-07-09 17:22:05 | Inchanger and slot are both 0 which is good. I think there is a directive for bacula to prefer volumes that are in the changer versus offsite. I am not sure though. I do not move volumes offsite and I also have a very long retention. What is the best way to resolve this issue? Well the quick hack is to mark that volume full by using update volume status. How often do you move volumes offsite? Can you explain the policy a little bit? I am thinking you want more than one Offsite pool and rotate the pools when you swap out volumes. If you do this monthly or something like that you can have your schedule do the rotation of the pools. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
