I often hit this problem in the past, and the reason was usualy some "lack of space" situations in the past.
Bacula marked some volumes with Error flag and use other. Now the Errorous volmes cant be used until they are purged.
Or maybe they were marked with Full (maybe becuase of size limit) flag and bacula used other Volume(s). So more Volumes were used in one day. Now those volumes are still not allowed to be recycled because they are "too young".
So my setup is like that: Use time of volumes is 23 hours. Max volumes in a pool is 42. Max retention time is 41 days. Full backup is on every even Sunday, Incremental in all other days. So I still have at least 28 days backtrack.
But you must still keep eye on disk space carefully or the problems will still prey you.
I wrote a little script with echo which I piped into bconsole. It was like:
...
Hope it helped you.
Od: "mayak-cq" <mayak AT australsat DOT com>
Komu: "bacula-users" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Odeslané: Pondělí, 8. Říjen 2012 9:31:15
Předmět: [Bacula-users] no more appenable volumes -- what's the preferred way to handle this
hi all,
i have a bacula instance that's been running fine for a long while ...
i was able to tweak the volume retention to keep a maximum number of backups available, until, a user saved a gigantic amount of (valuable) data to his disk.
so -- i now have no appendable volumes left to backup to:
- what is the best way to deal with this -- that is -- is there a way to globally reduce the volume retention of all volumes?
- do i manually recycle a bunch of volumes by hand?
many thanks
m
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