Colapinto Giovanni wrote:
> Thank you Troy.
>
> I've modified the config. Hope for tomorrow ;-)
>
And run the update slots command like I mentioned?
Volumes pick up their defaults from their pool when they are first
created in it, you need to force subsequent changes to apply to them
Troy.
> Bye
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Daniels [mailto:troy.daniels AT itouch.com DOT au]
> Sent: mercoledì 23 aprile 2008 12.16
> To: Colapinto Giovanni
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net; ceron
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] tape label
>
> Hi,
>
> Well you are apparently trying to have more than one job write to the tape.
>
> Do a 'status dir' in bconsole and check how many lines appear in the
> 'scheduled jobs' table.
>
> A job isn't "one nights worth of backups", it's well... a single job as
> defined in Bacula. Each server backed up counts as a separate job. It's also
> possible to use several jobs to back up one server.
>
> Also if you are backing up your server AND doing a catalog backup afterwards
> (as is recommended good practice) that's 2 jobs.
>
> If you want to keep writing backups to the tape until it's full I'd remove
> the Maximum Volume Jobs line altogether. As long as your schedule is setup
> properly it should be used for all subsequent Tuesday backup attempts until
> it fills up or reaches 80Gb whichever comes first. The problem with this
> approach is if that tape dies, you lose every Tuesday backup since it started.
>
> The 40/80Gb ratio provided by vendors is only a guideline by the way, you may
> be able to fit much more or much less on a tape depending on what sort of
> data you are backing up - with this in mind, if you truly want to fill your
> tapes you should remove the 'Maximum Volume Bytes'
> line as well - Bacula handles full tapes in a graceful manner and you might
> be surprised at just how much you can fit on one tape!
>
> One final note, if you change any of your pool settings you will need to do
> an 'update volume' command in bconsole and reload all volumes from the pool
> settings otherwise the changes wont be included in your existing tapes.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Troy.
>
> Colapinto Giovanni wrote:
>> Thanks Troy.
>>
>> I'm looking at the job logs and, like you have said, I found the following
>> line:
>>
>> Apr 22:28 srvmibackup-5004-dir JobId 1268: Max Volume jobs exceeded. Marking
>> Volume "Tuesday" as Used.
>>
>> Her my config:
>> JobDefs{
>> Name = "TapeBackup"
>> Type = Backup
>> Schedule = "WeeklyTape"
>> Pool = Weekly
>> Storage = Srvmifs-5009-tape
>> Messages = BackupMsg
>> Max Wait Time = 12h
>> Enabled = yes
>> Priority = 12
>> }
>>
>> Pool {
>> Name = TuesdayPool
>> Pool Type = Backup
>> Recycle = yes
>> AutoPrune = yes
>> Volume Retention = 5 days
>> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
>> Maximum Volume Bytes = 80GB
>> Label Format = Tuesday-
>> }
>>
>> So I think the error is in "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1", but why?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Troy Daniels [mailto:troy.daniels AT itouch.com DOT au]
>> Sent: mercoledì 23 aprile 2008 11.36
>> To: Colapinto Giovanni
>> Cc: ceron; bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] tape label
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Colapinto Giovanni wrote:
>>> Hi and excuse me for the long time answer, it's hell on work :-D
>>>
>> I'm sure we're all familiar with that :)
>>
>>> Pool: TuesdayPool
>>> +---------+--------------+-----------+---------+----------+
>>> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes |
>>> +---------+--------------+-----------+---------+----------+
>>> | 75 | Tuesday-0003 | Used | 1 | 129,024 |
>>> | 76 | Tuesday-0004 | Append | 1 | 0 |
>>> | 83 | Tuesday | Used | 1 | 129,024 |
>>> +---------+--------------+-----------+---------+----------+
>>>
>>> You ca see that the tape is being used this night, but why only 129.024
>>> bytes?
>>> It is a DLT Tape of 80Gb copressed, 40Gb native.
>>>
>> Status of 'Used' is different to a status of 'Full' - it indicates that for
>> some reason Bacula has decided to stop using that tape at some point. Check
>> your job output emails and you should see why it's done this.
>>
>> It's normally because you've limited the number of jobs, tape size or tape
>> use duration in the config somewhere.
>>
>> Hope this helps point you in the right direction. Posting your configs to
>> the mailing list would be the next step so maybe others can spot the problem.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Troy.
>>
>>
>>
>>> This morning I've found the request of bacula to mount Tuesday-0004
>>> volume...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>>> [mailto:bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net] On Behalf Of
>>> ceron
>>> Sent: martedì 8 aprile 2008 16.03
>>> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] tape label
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Giovanni,
>>>
>>> In order to help you provide some more information, like your job and pool
>>> resources and the entire error line in your job log.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Colapinto Giovanni wrote:
>>>> Hello guys.
>>>>
>>>> I've a problem with label tape in bacula. I've searched through
>>>> mailing list archive, but can't find anything, probably for the
>>>> general type of question....
>>>>
>>>> I've an up and running disk backup. I want to have a tape backup, so
>>>> I create the job to write to tape.
>>>>
>>>> Now the problem: I label a tape, put it in the correct pool, but
>>>> when the backup begins, it ask me to label a new tape, without using
>>>> the new labeled tape.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>>
>>>> Thanx
>>>>
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