Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Why isn't bacula asking for a tape from the pool?

2008-10-24 08:31:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Why isn't bacula asking for a tape from the pool?
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Bill Damage" <bill.damage AT yahoo DOT com>, "Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net" <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:57:04 -0400
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Bill Damage <bill.damage AT yahoo DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hi, well its happened, I did ask about this on this list a while back and
> thought it was sorted. I only have 10 tapes in my pool. I set up a daily
> incremental, and identified the pool to have 10 in. It worked fine and each
> time a change was needed I labelled them on the fly, like 002, 003 etc. Its
> just finished tape 010 and is asking me to mount a new one, the message is
> the same as the others i.e. please use "label" to create a new one, and NOT
> "please mount volume 001". I did mount tape 001 anyway, but it refused to
> continue the backup and is still asking for a new one. The pool is defined
> like this:
>
>>From your output below tape 001 to 005 have a 1 year retention period
so it is understandable that they did not get recycled.
> Pool {
>   Name = P01
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes                       # Bacula can automatically recycle
> Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 14 days
>   Maximum Volumes = 10
> }
> and the volumes have been used like this:
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes       | VolFiles |
> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
> |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> |       1 | 001        | Full      |       1 | 10,482,554,880 |       11 |
> 31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-09-22 09:30:44 |
> |       2 | 002        | Full      |       1 | 10,467,846,144 |       12 |
> 31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-09-23 12:44:38 |
> |       3 | 003        | Full      |       1 | 10,467,459,072 |       11 |
> 31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-09-24 14:35:22 |
> |       4 | 004        | Full      |       1 | 10,483,522,560 |       16 |
> 31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-11 07:38:38 |
> |       5 | 005        | Full      |       1 | 10,480,167,936 |       11 |
>  1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-12 09:29:09 |
> |       7 | 006        | Full      |       1 | 10,489,780,224 |       11 |
>  1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-15 01:21:47 |
> |       8 | 007        | Full      |       1 | 10,472,103,936 |       12 |
>  1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-15 12:58:18 |
> |       9 | 008        | Full      |       1 | 10,490,812,416 |       11 |
>  1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-22 13:51:42 |
> |      10 | 009        | Full      |       1 | 10,471,781,376 |       12 |
>  1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-19 09:12:35 |
> |      11 | 010        | Full      |       1 | 10,493,328,384 |       11 |
>  1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-21 23:32:10 |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>
> btw what are those numbers under VolRetention all about?
> Thanks..
>
This is the volume retention.
That is the number of seconds bacula will keep the tape after it was
full or used and LastWritten.

To fix the tapes with a 31,536,000 (1 year) retention. use the

update volume

command from a console and follow the prompts.

John

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