There were still volumes in my pool that were marked recycle=yes.

Removing the recycle flag from all volumes triggered the creation of new
filenames for each server and backup job.

Just changing the recycle flag to "no" in the configuration didn't solve
the problem.  

Thanks for the help!

Brian 




On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:38 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> 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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