Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] automatic recycling does not work

2008-07-13 11:11:15
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] automatic recycling does not work
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: baculausers <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:10:49 -0400
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:10 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Mike <micholz AT web DOT de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> on my setup, the automatic recacling does not work as i expect it should 
>> work.
>> May it is an error in the setup or a missunderstanding of the setup details.
>>
>>
>> What have i done? I have 2 pools:
>>
>> Pool {
>>  Name                  = even
>>  Pool Type             = Backup
>>  AutoPrune             = yes
>>  Volume Retention      = 13d
>>  Maximum Volumes       = 7
>>  Recycle               = yes
>> }
>>
>>
>> Pool {
>>  Name                  = odd
>>  Pool Type             = Backup
>>  AutoPrune             = yes
>>  Volume Retention      = 13d
>>  Maximum Volumes       = 7
>>  Recycle               = yes
>> }
>>
>>
>> The intention is to have one pool per week (one for even and one for odd
>> weeknumbers). For both pools i have 7 tapes. They are labeled with
>> sunday-even, monday-even and so on.
>>
>> In the weeks with even weeknumbers bacula uses the tapes from the pool even.
>> This is setup in the corresponding schedule. This works so far.
>>
>> With this setup i expected, that tapes one day before the next usage expires
>> and gets recycled automatically. If i issue "list volumes" all tapes are on
>> state Used. At least for monday-odd (seen as of today) it should have the
>> state recycled.
>>
>> What have i done wrong or missing?
>>
> Most likely the problem is that the tapes are not marked as Full or
> Used. If the tapes have append status volume retention does not apply.
>

-- 
John M. Drescher

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