[Bacula-users] Recycling a volume.
My goal is to have a backup job per employee. Each employee will have their own Pool and volume. My problem is that while testing the backups work fine, except the volume just keeps growing and growing. I have set the max volume size to 12G. The current file size is now 16G. I have also set the max jobs for the volume to 7 and I have now done 10 total backups to the same volume. I want it to hit 12G and then start writing over the old stuff. I have the retention set to 1 hour and not sure what else to change. TIA -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling a volume.
have you update your volume? isn't enough to make changes in the config file, use update volume command from bconsole ciao Mauro -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] recycling a volume with Error status
Alan Brown wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote: Hi all, A couple of my volumes have accumulated Error status, and so are not being re-used. I've purged one of them and updated it's status to Append, but Bacula then seemed to mark it 'Full' and didnt use it. I then tried to re-label it with the same label, but that was rejected. What's the correct procedure to make them re-usable? Purge the volumes and bacula will then mark them for recycling when it thinks appropriate. AB Hm. I did just purge one of them at first, but bacula still didnt seem to want to use it. I have 3 tapes in an experimental setup in an autochanger, and the config is set so that they are just used round-robin. This has been happily cycling for some weeks, but two tapes got flagged with Error status after I stopped bacula to add another tapedrive to the autochanger. The third tape filled up and bacula blocked waiting for a tape. I purged one of the Error-status ones, expecting bacula to use it, but it didnt, so I then tried changing its status to Append, with the result as mentioned above. Since then I've discovered that simply setting its status to Full is sufficient. Bacula then pruned it and proceeded to re-use it. BTW, I had a bad time with 'purge'. I went into bconsole, issued the 'purge' command, chose the 'volume' option and expected to be prompted for a volume-name/media-id to purge. This didnt happen - bacula proceeded to purge all the volumes and I had to recover the catalog from its backup. Cheers, Terry - 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=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] recycling a volume with Error status
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote: Hi all, A couple of my volumes have accumulated Error status, and so are not being re-used. I've purged one of them and updated it's status to Append, but Bacula then seemed to mark it 'Full' and didnt use it. I then tried to re-label it with the same label, but that was rejected. What's the correct procedure to make them re-usable? Purge the volumes and bacula will then mark them for recycling when it thinks appropriate. AB - 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=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
