On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Brian Clarkson <brianc AT lnstar DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 16:11 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Brian Clarkson <brianc AT lnstar DOT com> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:06 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
>> >> >> Make the volume retention much longer. And then apply that to all of
>> >> >> your volumes.
>> >> >
>> >> > Wouldn't the volume retention period need to be shorter?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Retention period is how long to keep the volume before it can be reused.
>> >
>> > So if I don't want to reuse volumes I should set the retention period to
>> > zero?
>> >
>>
>> Definitely not. I know telling bacula to keep your backup data for 0
>> seconds is not what you want. Set this to the amount of time you want
>> to keep your data after the backup is finished.
>>
>> > Reusing the files (a volume is just a collection of 512m files per my
>> > configuration) is what I want to stop.
>> >
>>
>> I got you there. As you mentioned you need to turn off automatic
>> volume recycling. Please post your configs. Have you had bacula reload
>> the config file after you have changed it?
>
> I restarted the bacula director after making the changes.  Subsequent
> backup jobs still re-used files.
>
> >From bacula-dir.conf
>
> Pool {
>  Name = Default
>  Label Format = "${JobName}-${Level}-${NumVols}"
>  Pool Type = Backup
>  Recycle = no
>  AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>  Use Volume Once = yes
>  Volume Retention = 25 days
>  MaximumVolumeBytes = 512m
>  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> }
>
> Client {
>   Name = client-fd
>   Address = server.com
>   FDPort = 9102
>   Catalog = MyCatalog
>   Password = "***"
>   File Retention = 21 days
>   Job Retention = 21 days
>   AutoPrune = yes
> }
>
> Job {
>  Name = "Backup Server"
>  Type = Backup
>  Client = server-fd
>  FileSet = "Full Set"
>  Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
>  Storage = Storage
>  Messages = Standard
>  Pool = Default
>  Write Bootstrap = "/usr/local/bacula/var/bacula/working/server.bsr"
> }
>
> Storage {
>  Name = Storage
>  Address = storage.server.com
>  SDPort = 9103
>  Password = "***"
>  Device = StorageServer
>  Media Type = File
> }
>
> >From bacula-sd.conf
>
> Device {
>  Name = StorageServer
>  Media Type = File
>  Archive Device = /home/bacula-data/
>  LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled
> media
>  Random Access = Yes;
>  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>  RemovableMedia = no;
>  AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>

I think I see why this is happening.

Do the following
list media pool=Default

and see if Recycle=1 is set in any of the volumes.

if so

update

and then select "Pool from resource"

and follow the prompts.

John

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