How about bacula checking for no space when it needs to create a 
volume?  If your Maximum Volume Size is 4G, then when bacula attempts to 
create the volume, it first checks to see if there is room for the 
volume specified by Maximum Volume Size?

On 1/24/2010 12:14 AM, James Harper wrote:
> There is a "Maximum Volume Jobs" option that restricts the number of
> jobs that can be written to a volume. I am using disk based storage with
> 1 job per volume so I have it set to 1.
>
> Last night my disk ran out of space, so I ended up with tens of volumes
> in 8 pools with just a little bit written to each. Bacula would start a
> job, run out of space, and start a new volume. This went on for a bit
> because I have multiple concurrent jobs all writing to the same disk so
> previous volume's were being freed up.
>
> Because all the volumes that were created last night have volume
> retention dates that will protect them for 3 weeks, I'm going to run out
> of volumes in the pool in a bit under 3 weeks time. I need to purge all
> the errant volumes, which is going to take quite a while (each purge
> takes a few minutes to run...)
>
> If there was a setting called "Maximum Volumes Per Job" that I could set
> to 1 then it would avoid this problem. I'd have a whole lot of jobs
> fail, but they effectively failed anyway and I wouldn't be left with
> such a mess to clean up...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
>
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