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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem of "is waiting on max storage jobs" and "is waiting for an appendable volume"

2014-11-18 14:03:39
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem of "is waiting on max storage jobs" and "is waiting for an appendable volume"
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: Ana Emília M. Arruda <emiliaarruda AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:57:58 GMT
Also, I think those Label Format clauses are strange when used with Recycle =
yes.  The volumes will be labelled forever with the creation date
(e.g. monday-2014-11-17), not the recycling date.

__Martin


>>>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:51:57 -0300, Ana Emília M. Arruda said:
> 
> Yes, you are correct. That was exactly what ocurred. If you want a 13 days
> retention period for your incremental jobs, you will have to configure
> a Maximum
> Volumes of 2. Also, you have different retention periods for incremental
> and full backups (me too). So I would recommend you to have different pools
> for your full and incremental backups.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ana
> 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Sieu Truc <sieutruc AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the actual value is 13, and it caused the problem.
> >
> > In my opinion,  the first week , bacula created successfully the monday
> > incremental backup, and its status was "USED" but it had to be wait 13 days.
> > During that time, in the second week, bacula tried to write again to the
> > same volume that is not pruned so it caused the problem. And maybe it hangs
> > the remain jobs.
> >
> > Is it right ?
> >
> > Or do you have any suggestion ?
> >
> > Truc
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda <
> > emiliaarruda AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Sieu,
> >>
> >> If you have changed the "volume retention" for your volumes in the pool
> >> configuration, this change only is applied to new volumes created. For the
> >> volumes that were already in the catalog, you should run an "update volume"
> >> through bconsole and change this value there too.
> >>
> >> Since you said that you have changed from 6 to 13 days your retention
> >> periods, I´m supposing maybe this is your problem with  "is waiting on
> >> max storage jobs".
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ana
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Sieu Truc <sieutruc AT gmail DOT com> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> sorry for my mistake, in the pools.conf, the value of parameter "Volume
> >>> Retention" is all 13 days, not 6 days as above.
> >>>
> >>> Truc
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Sieu Truc <sieutruc AT gmail DOT com> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a schedules.conf like
> >>>>
> >>>> #
> >>>> # Planification des sauvegardes nfs.
> >>>> #
> >>>> Schedule {
> >>>> Name = "schedule_intra1"
> >>>> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=lundi Monday at 22:00
> >>>> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=mardi Tuesday at 22:00
> >>>> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=mercredi Wednesday at 22:00
> >>>> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=jeudi Thursday at 22:00
> >>>> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=vendredi Friday at 22:00
> >>>> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=samedi Saturday at 22:00
> >>>>         Run = Level=Full Pool=dimanche_pair w02 w04 w06 w08 w10 w12 w14
> >>>> w16 w18 w20 w22 w24 w26 w28 w30 w32 w34 w36 w38 w40 w42 w44 w46 w48 w50 
> >>>> w52
> >>>> Sunday at 22:00
> >>>>         Run = Level=Full Pool=dimanche_impair w01 w03 w05 w07 w09 w11
> >>>> w13 w15 w17 w19 w21 w23 w25 w27 w29 w31 w33 w35 w37 w39 w41 w43 w45 w47 
> >>>> w49
> >>>> w51 w53 Sunday at 22:00
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> Schedule {
> >>>>         Name = "schedule_intra2"
> >>>>         Run = Level=Incremental Pool=monday Monday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Incremental Pool=tuesday Tuesday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Incremental Pool=wednesdayi Wednesday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Incremental Pool=thursday Thursday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Incremental Pool=friday Friday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Incremental Pool=saturday Saturday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Full Pool=sunday_even w02 w04 w06 w08 w10 w12 w14
> >>>> w16 w18 w20 w22 w24 w26 w28 w30 w32 w34 w36 w38 w40 w42 w44 w46 w48 w50 
> >>>> w52
> >>>> Sunday at 22:10
> >>>>         Run = Level=Full Pool=sunday_odd w01 w03 w05 w07 w09 w11 w13
> >>>> w15 w17 w19 w21 w23 w25 w27 w29 w31 w33 w35 w37 w39 w41 w43 w45 w47 w49 
> >>>> w51
> >>>> w53 Sunday at 22:10
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> And here the definitions of the pools are:
> >>>>
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>> Name = monday
> >>>> Pool Type = Backup
> >>>> AutoPrune = yes
> >>>> Volume Retention = 6 days
> >>>> Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>> Recycle = yes
> >>>>         #recyclepool= lundi
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>> Label Format = "monday-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name = tuesday
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>> AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 6 days
> >>>> Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>> Recycle = yes
> >>>>         #recyclepool= mardi
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format = "tuesday-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name = wednesday
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>> AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 6 days
> >>>> Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>> Recycle = yes
> >>>>         #recyclepool= mercredi
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format =
> >>>> "wednesday-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name = thursday
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>> AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 6 days
> >>>> Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>> Recycle = yes
> >>>>         #recyclepool= jeudi
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format =
> >>>> "thursday-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name =friday
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>> AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 6 days
> >>>> Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>> Recycle = yes
> >>>>         #recyclepool= vendredi
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format = "friday-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name = saturday
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>> AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 6 days
> >>>> Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>> Recycle = yes
> >>>>         #recyclepool= samedi
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format =
> >>>> "saturday-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name = sunday_even
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>>         AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 13 days
> >>>>         Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>>         Recycle = yes
> >>>>         recyclepool= dimanche_pair
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format =
> >>>> "sunday_even-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> Pool {
> >>>>         Name = sunday_odd
> >>>>         Pool Type = Backup
> >>>>         AutoPrune = yes
> >>>>         Volume Retention = 13 days
> >>>>         Volume Use Duration = 1 days
> >>>>         Recycle = yes
> >>>>         recyclepool= dimanche_impair
> >>>>         Maximum Volumes = 1
> >>>>         Recycle Current Volume = yes
> >>>>         Label Format =
> >>>> "sunday_odd-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> storages.conf
> >>>>      Storage {
> >>>> Name = FileStorage
> >>>> Address = "192.168.56.10"
> >>>> SDPORT = 9103
> >>>> Password = "test"
> >>>> Device = FileStorage
> >>>> Media Type = File
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> There wasn't any problem in the first week, but since the second week,
> >>>> i got a lot of messages of "is waiting on max storage jobs" from almost 
> >>>> the
> >>>> jobs.
> >>>>
> >>>> Some of them got "is waiting for an appendable volume"
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you suggest me what to solve it ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Truc
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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