On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 AT yahoo DOT com>
wrote:
> --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Once purged, you can either let Bacula recycle them itself,
>> or you can
>> use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume
>> status to
>> Recycle. This is a particularly straightforward
>> operation if you are
>> using BAT, since you can do it on all the volumes at once.
>>
>
> OK, my next backup ran and it used the next volume. Success!
> However.. it "appended". Here's what my volumes look like now:
>
> *list volumes
> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
> Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
> Pool: Default
> No results to list.
> Pool: File
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | 25 | disk_0001 | Purged | 1 | 37,353,382 | 0 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:10:03 |
> | 26 | disk_0002 | Purged | 1 | 5,125,873,046 | 1 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-13 23:10:02 |
> | 27 | disk_0003 | Append | 1 | 7,009,019,184 | 1 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-14 23:21:34 |
> | 28 | disk_0004 | Purged | 1 | 51,194,220 | 0 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-07 23:21:59 |
> | 29 | disk_0005 | Purged | 1 | 10,436 | 0 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:05:03 |
> | 30 | disk_0006 | Purged | 1 | 561 | 0 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:07:14 |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> Pool: Scratch
> No results to list.
> *
>
> Whatever was on disk_0003 was left in place, and the new backup data appended
> to that volume. Is there a way to make it wipe the volume clean before
> writing?
>
It should have done that. Are you sure you did not backup 7G of data?
John
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