On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Wil Cooley <wcooley AT nakedape DOT cc> wrote:
>
> I am running 2.0.3 on Fedora 8 for my director, which also provides SD
> for my tape drive. I am having troubles understanding tape
> rotation/recycling, I guess, even though I have read the section
> "Automatic Volume Recycling" in the manual a dozen times or more.
>
> My goal is to use two tapes, swapping them every two weeks and
> overwriting them when I do. I have 10GB tapes (w/o hardware compression)
> and backup about 4GB per week. So far so good. The trouble comes when
> I need to exchange the tape. It's difficult to describe the exact
> scenarios when it will not work; there is so much time between each
> session when I try to understand it that I forget things and end up
> nearly starting over each time. I have been through a number of
> iterations, but my current configuration is below. Often it will just
> wait for days with the correct (by my expectations) tape mounted, but
> jobs will not run. "status storage=mytape" shows that it seems to be
> unhappy with the current tape for whatever reason.
>
> I have found previously that once I got the tape to "Recycled" or
> "Purged" state (sometimes by manually pruning/purging), Bacula would use
> the tape if I restarted the director (or maybe restarted the storage?).
> Damn, I just restarted them both to check and now there are no jobs
> waiting on the tape and the tape is no longer in state "BLOCKED waiting
> for mumblemumble". I guess I'll so if they run tonight.
>
This is not normal. Please post the messages when you get into this situation.
Also did you issue an unmount then inserted the other tape?
>
> At any rate, here are the important bits of my configuration; perhaps
> someone can tell me if I am doing something boneheaded.
>
> My clients are all basically the same as this, with the exception of
> name, address and password:
>
> Client {
> Name = myhost
> Address = myhost
> FDPort = 9102
> Catalog = MyCatalog
> Password = "xxx"
> File Retention = 14 days
> Job Retention = 14 days
> AutoPrune = yes
> }
>
> Pool sets my volume size, count, retention period and use duration. Hm,
> is "Recycle Current Volume = yes" what I am missing? Or would "Recycle
> Oldest Volume" be better, so pruning doesn't happen on the tape that
> needs to be swapped out if it takes me a few days to do it (which it
> does sometimes)?
>
> Pool {
> Name = Default
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes
> AutoPrune = yes
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 10 gb
> Maximum Volumes = 2
> Volume Retention = 14 days
> Volume Use Duration = 14 days
> LabelFormat = "TR5-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> }
>
I would set this to 13 days instead. I believe the duration starts
after the first job on the tape is complete. Thus making a tape
available 15 days after inserted.
John
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