Hi!

You are correct Luc. 

He needs a "stop using volume directive", and I paste here the options from manual:

The above three directives are all you need assuming that you fill each of your Volumes then wait the Volume Retention period before reusing them. If you want Bacula to stop using a Volume and recycle it before it is full, you will need to use one or more additional directives such as:

• Use Volume _Once_ = yes
• Volume Use Duration = ttt
• Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn
• Maximum Volume Bytes = mmm

Particularly, I like the "volume use duration" when you have more than one job writing to volume. It works like a charm for me.

But, with Volume retention = 1 month and a "stop using volume directive"configured, all the jobs and files are pruned when the volume retention period is reached. So he will not have jobs and files for a year, but for a month too.

Regards,

Ana

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Luc Van der Veken <lucvdv AT wimionline DOT com> wrote:

I’m not the expert, so I could be wrong, but these are a few things I noticed.

I hope if I’m wrong, whether it be completely or in a detail, someone will correct me so I learn something from it myself.

 

- Looks like it’s a disk volume, and there’s no limit on volume size or job count or time, nor a “Use Volume Once”. I think it will just keep appending without ever starting a new volume.

- File & job retention 1 year, would span 12 full backups.

- Volume retention 1 month: that starts counting after the last write to the volume, not at day one.  It also may never happen (or at least later than you expect, I don’t know if there’s a default maximum size) because there’s no limit on volume use.

 

 

 

From: Henrique Machado [mailto:henri.mjr AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: 23 May 2014 14:52
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Volume not recycling?

 

Hello!

 

I'm backuping a windows 2008 R2 64bits fileserver. I just want a full backup at 1st friday and incremental at another days.

 

Current Windows Used disk: 1.13 TB

Current Full backup Volume: 3.4 TB

Current Incremental backup Volume: 167 GB

 

Why my full backup volume is 3x more than my backuped disk?

 

Thanks.

 

 

OS: CentOS release 6.5

Bacula Version: 5.0.0

 

 

#fileserver.conf 

 

Client {

  Name = fileserver-fd

  Password = 123456789

  Address = fileserver.domain.local

  FDPort = 9102

  Catalog = MyCatalog

  File Retention = 1 year

  Job Retention = 1 year

}

 

Job {

  Name = fileserverDefault-Job

  Type = Backup

  Level = Incremental

  Client = fileserver-fd

  FileSet = fileserverDefault-Fileset

  Schedule = fileserverDefault-Schedule

  Storage = Default

  Pool = Default

  Full Backup Pool = "fileserverFull-Pool"

  Incremental Backup Pool = "fileserverIncremental-Pool"

  Messages = Standard

}

 

Pool {

  Name = fileserverFull-Pool

  Pool Type = Backup

  Volume Retention = 1 month

  Recycle = yes

  AutoPrune = yes

  LabelFormat = fileserverFull-

}

 

Pool {

  Name = fileserverIncremental-Pool

  Pool Type = Backup

  Volume Retention = 1 month

  Recycle = yes

  AutoPrune = yes

  LabelFormat = fileserverIncremental-

}

 

FileSet {

  Name = fileserverDefault-Fileset

  Include {

    File = D:/Public

    File = D:/Users

    Options {

      Signature = MD5

      Compression = GZIP5

 

    }

  }

}

 

 

Schedule {

  Name = fileserverDefault-Schedule

  Run = Level=Full Pool=fileserverFull-Pool 1st fri at 19:00

  Run = Level=Incremental Pool=fileserverIncremental-Pool daily at 22:00

}

 

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