--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net> wrote:
> From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:02 PM
> On 04/22/10 17:47, Joseph Spenner
> wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Joseph,
> >>
> >> That looks much better. Now your volumes
> have the
> >> correct nine days
> >> retention time for your desired ten-day cycle,
> instead of
> >> zero, so your
> >> jobs will actually be kept around instead of being
> pruned
> >> as soon as
> >> they complete. (That's why you were always
> seeing "No
> >> prior job found".)
> >>
> >> I suggest you now purge and recycle all of your
> existing
> >> volumes so that
> >> you're starting over from a clean slate, let it
> run, and
> >> see how it
> >> goes. Right now, you have only one
> appendable
> >> volume.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I am still testing, using "run" at the bconsole, and
> selecting:
> > 2: BackupCatalog
> >
> > I've run it a few times in one hour, and I see it
> appending the backup to the same volume. Is this
> because the runs are happening too fast (same cycle)?
> The setting:
> >
> > Volume Use Duration = 23h
> >
> > responsible?
>
> Yes. That setting says the volume is to remain
> writeable for 23 hours
> from the time it is first written. If you look back
> at the job results
> you posted earlier, you'll see that each day, the three
> jobs you ran
> were all written to the same volume, but the next day, when
> the next set
> of jobs ran 24 hours after you first wrote to the volume,
> the use
> duration was exceeded and Bacula had to recycle the next
> volume and use
> it. All of this is exactly what should be happening.
>
Ok, thanks for the great help guys. Makes sense.
I'm getting there!
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