What is stopping bacula from using volume 44???
<drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
> <king AT computerking DOT ca> wrote:
> > Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and
> the like could someone kindly help me with this.
> >
> > Basically for the local intranet i would like bacula to take a full
> back at the first of each month ie (October 1) then incremental each
> night until the first of the next month. However I would like a
> separate volume for each month and would like to keep 2 months of
> volumes. Does this make sense?? how are other doing this?? I think it
> is safer to keep 2 volumes in case something goes wrong with the new
> one! ie the only existing volume gets pruned purged
> recycled/overwritten with a corrupt/incomplete backup or something!!
> >
> > Here is my problem bacula is auto creating the volumes very nicely
> however the first volume gets marked as full hopefully this is due to
> the Volume Use Duration setting of 1 month. Is this correct? or should
> this get marked as used? did something else happen like a full
> harddisk?
> >
> > The second volume is getting marked as used still hoping this is due
> to the Volume Use Duration setting. However wondering why volume one
> is full and volume two is used? see below
> >
> > Pool: PaulD-pool
> >
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+
> > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes |
> VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
> LastWritten |
> >
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+
> > | 44 | PaulD-0044 | Full | 1 | 9,442,414,325 |
> 2 | 1,900,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PaulD-File |
> 2008-10-02 02:42:07 |
> > | 57 | PaulD-0057 | Used | 1 | 24,748,595,769 |
> 5 | 1,900,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PaulD-File |
> 2008-09-30 02:12:52 |
> >
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+
> >
> > ******HERE IS MY PROBLEM******
> >
> > Bacula does not seem to be able to reuse the old volume and keeps
> giving me this error why does it not just recycle the first volume
> 44?? why is it calling 57 the oldest volume??
> >
> > 08-Oct 05:30 miako-dir JobId 1817: Pruning oldest volume
> "PaulD-0057"
> > 08-Oct 05:30 miako-sd JobId 1817: Job PaulD.2008-10-07_02.05.06
> waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> > Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
> > Storage: "PaulD-sd" (/usr/local/backups)
> > Pool: PaulD-pool
> > Media type: PaulD-File
> >
> From what I see bacula is doing what it is supposed to do. I mean
> PaulD-0057 was last written on 2008-09-30 02:12:52 which means it
> still has quite a few days left before the retention period expires.
> From the docs:
>
> "The Volume Retention record defines the length of time that Bacula
> will guarantee that the Volume is not reused counting from the time
> the last job stored on the Volume terminated. A key point is that
> this
> time period is not even considered as long at the Volume remains
> appendable. The Volume Retention period count down begins only when
> the Append status has been changed to some othe status (Full, Used,
> Purged, ...). "
>
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html
>
> John
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