Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup volume recycling/autopruning problems

2008-06-02 16:40:21
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup volume recycling/autopruning problems
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik AT iki DOT fi>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:39:54 +0300
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:07:56PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:47:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:46:11PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:36:07PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:31:21AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> > > > > > Nope.. I didn't change volume retention times after the volumes were
> > > > > > created.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://pasik.reaktio.net/bacula-cannot-find-any-appendable-volumes.txt
> > > > > >
> > > > > That looks fine. I have no idea why this is not working correctly.
> > > > > Hopefully others can help..
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > atm I'm running Bacula 2.3.28 (SVN from a couple of days ago).. I 
> > > > wonder if
> > > > there's some bug in the development code affecting this functionality..
> > > > 
> > > > (I need development version because I'm going to test "copy jobs" 
> > > > feature).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hmm.. now this is weird.
> > > 
> > > I stopped bacula and restarted it.
> > > 
> > > Now I get this:
> > > 
> > > JobId 5: There are no more Jobs associated with Volume "Pool1-Vol-0001". 
> > > Marking it purged.
> > > JobId 5: All records pruned from Volume "Pool1-Vol-0001"; marking it 
> > > "Purged"
> > > JobId 5: Recycled volume "Pool1-Vol-0001"
> > > JobId 5: Using Device "FSDevice1"
> > > JobId 5: Recycled volume "Pool1-Vol-0001" on device "FSDevice1" 
> > > (/mnt/backup1/pool1), all previous data lost.
> > > JobId 5: Volume used once. Marking Volume "Pool1-Vol-0001" as Used.
> > > 
> > > What changed/happened when I restarted bacula? 
> > > 
> > 
> > Actually, after restarting I ran "setdebug 100" command.. how could that
> > affect this? 
> > 
> 
> Ok, it had nothing to do with that "setdebug" command.
> 
> I dropped the bacula mysql database and started from scratch.. 
> 
> Now I can see the same behaviour.. when all the 8 volumes are full/used
> bacula doesn't recycle the volumes.. instead it asks to label a new volume. 
> 
> BUT, after I restart bacula, the same job runs fine and it DOES recycle the
> volumes.. now this is weird. 
> 

I tried this once again.. started from scratch and it was still exactly the 
same. 

I have to restart bacula before it's able to recycle volumes.. any idea
what's causing that? 

-- Pasi

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