[Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recyc

Dear All,

I am running Bacula Community Edition 5.2.13 on Solaris 10 x86. I am trying to understand why Bacula doesn't seem to recycle when I think it should.

I have recently moved to a configuration where each Volume contains only a single Job. I had envisioned that when the Volume Retention period was reached, the Volume would be set to Recycle and reused. Instead what I'm finding is that Bacula is taking much longer to Recycle Volumes than I think it should and is instead creating more new Volumes.

This is a relevant Pool Config

Pool {

Name = Archimedes-FS_Full

Pool Type = Backup

Storage = Archimedes_Full_Files

Recycle = Yes

AutoPrune = Yes

Volume Retention = 14d

Maximum Volume Jobs = 1

Label Format = Archimedes-FS_Full-

Next Pool = Archimedes_LTO5_Tapes

}

This is a standard Job Config using Volumes in that Pool

Job {

Name = "ar-web1_Daily_Disk"

Type = Backup

Client = ar-web1.archimedes

FileSet = "Archimedes_Solaris_FileSystems"

Schedule = "Incr_0300_Wed_Full"

Pool = Archimedes-FS_Incr

JobDefs = "DiskDefs"

Full Backup Pool = Archimedes-FS_Full

Incremental Backup Pool = Archimedes-FS_Incr

Messages = Standard

Write Bootstrap = "/mnt/backup1/archimedes/bacula/bootstrap/%n.bsr"

}

This is the Client definition

Client {

Name = ar-web1.archimedes

Address = 10.0.6.101

FDPort = 9102

Catalog = Mentora_Catalog

Password = "m7pJY91cdgeYjknTffyj3/vBd+vpRzh6briOhZV5yWWN"

AutoPrune = yes

}

As you can see, the only place where I define retention period is in the Pool. Nothing should be overriding this. Yet, here are the Volumes. I can see that the period between LastWritten is 7 days, coinciding with my Full Backup Schedule, however Bacula should not be retaining 4 weeks of these files, only 2 (14d)

108 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0108 | Recycle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-06 03:07:21 |

| 128 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0128 | Used | 1 | 33,862,178,634 | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-06 06:53:05 |

| 129 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0129 | Used | 1 | 39,038,099,750 | 9 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-06 10:01:46 |

| 130 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0130 | Used | 1 | 5,130,340,345 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-06 10:04:51 |

| 131 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0131 | Used | 1 | 4,744,597,690 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-06 10:07:48 |

| 132 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0132 | Used | 1 | 5,376,150,353 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-12 03:09:06 |

| 133 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0133 | Used | 1 | 4,790,685,951 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-12 03:11:47 |

| 134 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0134 | Used | 1 | 2,878,371,042 | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-12 03:16:04 |

| 135 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0135 | Used | 1 | 33,834,286,944 | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-12 07:03:00 |

| 136 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0136 | Used | 1 | 39,201,368,421 | 9 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-12 10:10:53 |

| 137 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0137 | Used | 1 | 4,820,516,075 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-19 03:06:47 |

| 138 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0138 | Used | 1 | 40,170,205,038 | 9 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-19 06:22:59 |

| 139 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0139 | Used | 1 | 5,126,884,169 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-19 06:25:25 |

| 140 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0140 | Used | 1 | 33,890,965,413 | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-19 10:13:47 |

| 141 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0141 | Used | 1 | 2,920,752,161 | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-06-19 10:17:54 |

| 142 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0142 | Used | 1 | 5,567,216,031 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-03 03:14:42 |

| 143 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0143 | Used | 1 | 33,858,531,390 | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-03 07:02:09 |

| 144 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0144 | Used | 1 | 31,142,987,941 | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-03 10:11:46 |

| 145 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0145 | Used | 1 | 3,086,752,333 | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-03 10:15:13 |

| 146 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0146 | Used | 1 | 4,907,978,588 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-03 10:16:50 |

| 149 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0149 | Used | 1 | 36,551,294,734 | 8 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-10 06:52:31 |

| 163 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0163 | Used | 1 | 33,899,466,368 | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-10 10:40:22 |

| 181 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0181 | Used | 1 | 3,216,852,372 | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-10 10:44:19 |

| 1,035 | Archimedes-FS_Full-1035 | Used | 1 | 4,963,655,982 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-10 10:46:16 |

| 1,036 | Archimedes-FS_Full-1036 | Used | 1 | 5,952,418,020 | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File | 2013-07-10 10:49:56 |

| 1,043 | Archimedes-FS_Full

Can anyone explain what is going on?

Thank you,

Shon

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[Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recycle concepts