>>>>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:09:59 -0600, Brian Clarkson said:
> 
> Is there a way to paginate the response from these list commands?  I
> have 37k entries in this pool ... 

Not within Bacula, but you can use the @output command in bconsole:

@output /tmp/out.txt
list media pool=Default
@output

and then open /tmp/out.txt in a text editor.

You can also run bconsole in a GNU Emacs shell (as long as bconsole is built
without conio).

__Martin


> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:38 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Brian Clarkson <brianc AT lnstar DOT com> 
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 16:11 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Brian Clarkson <brianc AT lnstar DOT 
> > >> com> wrote:
> > >> > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:06 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > >> >> >> Make the volume retention much longer. And then apply that to all 
> > >> >> >> of
> > >> >> >> your volumes.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Wouldn't the volume retention period need to be shorter?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Retention period is how long to keep the volume before it can be 
> > >> >> reused.
> > >> >
> > >> > So if I don't want to reuse volumes I should set the retention period 
> > >> > to
> > >> > zero?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Definitely not. I know telling bacula to keep your backup data for 0
> > >> seconds is not what you want. Set this to the amount of time you want
> > >> to keep your data after the backup is finished.
> > >>
> > >> > Reusing the files (a volume is just a collection of 512m files per my
> > >> > configuration) is what I want to stop.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> I got you there. As you mentioned you need to turn off automatic
> > >> volume recycling. Please post your configs. Have you had bacula reload
> > >> the config file after you have changed it?
> > >
> > > I restarted the bacula director after making the changes.  Subsequent
> > > backup jobs still re-used files.
> > >
> > > >From bacula-dir.conf
> > >
> > > Pool {
> > >  Name = Default
> > >  Label Format = "${JobName}-${Level}-${NumVols}"
> > >  Pool Type = Backup
> > >  Recycle = no
> > >  AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
> > >  Use Volume Once = yes
> > >  Volume Retention = 25 days
> > >  MaximumVolumeBytes = 512m
> > >  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> > > }
> > >
> > > Client {
> > >   Name = client-fd
> > >   Address = server.com
> > >   FDPort = 9102
> > >   Catalog = MyCatalog
> > >   Password = "***"
> > >   File Retention = 21 days
> > >   Job Retention = 21 days
> > >   AutoPrune = yes
> > > }
> > >
> > > Job {
> > >  Name = "Backup Server"
> > >  Type = Backup
> > >  Client = server-fd
> > >  FileSet = "Full Set"
> > >  Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
> > >  Storage = Storage
> > >  Messages = Standard
> > >  Pool = Default
> > >  Write Bootstrap = "/usr/local/bacula/var/bacula/working/server.bsr"
> > > }
> > >
> > > Storage {
> > >  Name = Storage
> > >  Address = storage.server.com
> > >  SDPort = 9103
> > >  Password = "***"
> > >  Device = StorageServer
> > >  Media Type = File
> > > }
> > >
> > > >From bacula-sd.conf
> > >
> > > Device {
> > >  Name = StorageServer
> > >  Media Type = File
> > >  Archive Device = /home/bacula-data/
> > >  LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled
> > > media
> > >  Random Access = Yes;
> > >  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
> > >  RemovableMedia = no;
> > >  AlwaysOpen = no;
> > > }
> > >
> > 
> > I think I see why this is happening.
> > 
> > Do the following
> > list media pool=Default
> > 
> > and see if Recycle=1 is set in any of the volumes.
> > 
> > if so
> > 
> > update
> > 
> > and then select "Pool from resource"
> > 
> > and follow the prompts.
> > 
> > John
> 
> 
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