Re: [Bacula-users] bacula saying volume limit hit on tape drive

Yay, I figured it out. I added this to the pool that the autoloader lives in:

Pool {

Name = TapeArchiveFullBackups

Pool Type = Backup

Recycle = yes

AutoPrune = yes

Volume Retention = 3 years

Storage = PV-TL4000

Maximum Volume Bytes = 0

}

I did not previously have a max volume bytes specified, so it must have been inheriting it from somewhere. But now I have restarted my copy job, and its at 188GB now, and still rolling along.

Thanks,

jonathan

From: Jonathan Horne [mailto:jhorne AT skopos DOT us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 11:05 AM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [Bacula-users] bacula saying volume limit hit on tape drive

Hello, bacula is writing just 53GB to 400GB LTO3 tapes, declaring that the specified size limit has been exceeded.

09-Apr 10:51 bacula-sd JobId 11602: User defined maximum volume capacity 53,687,091,200 exceeded on device "TL4000D2" (/dev/nst1).

09-Apr 10:51 bacula-sd JobId 11602: Re-read of last block succeeded.

09-Apr 10:51 bacula-sd JobId 11602: End of medium on Volume "SFG019L3" Bytes=53,687,079,936 Blocks=832,202 at 09-Apr-2013 10:51.

09-Apr 10:51 bacula-sd JobId 11602: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 8, drive 1" command.

09-Apr 10:52 bacula-sd JobId 11602: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 1" command.

09-Apr 10:52 bacula-sd JobId 11602: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 1", result: nothing loaded.

As far as I can tell, I do not have a size limit defined for this device.

Device {

Name = TL4000D2

Drive Index = 1

Media Type = LTO-3

Archive Device = /dev/nst1

Changer Command = "/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"

Changer Device = /dev/sg6

Autochanger = yes

AutomaticMount = yes;

AlwaysOpen = yes;

RemovableMedia = yes

RandomAccess = no

RequiresMount = yes

LabelMedia = no

# Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded

# If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo

Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'"

}

However, I do have limit defined on the file storage files that the backups from this copy job are coming from.

What can I look at to eliminate this waste of 350GB of unused tape space?

Thanks,

jonathan

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