Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

Hi Jeff,

Bacula will not use any volume before retention perdidos. Unless you specify in your pool configuration "purge oldest volume". This directive does not respect the retention perdiods and will find the oldest used volume to recycle. It is recommended the use of "recycle oldest volume" instead. If none of this directives are specified, Bacula will stuck waiting you to mount a new volume that it can use for the job.

When I make this kind of decisions, I plan carefully the amount of space of each backup job I have and always there will be a volume to recycle.

Regards,

Ana

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days.

100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old.

Right now bacula is attempting to prune the oldest volume. As I understand things.. this will not result in any thing actually being pruned from that volume and essentially my db is just going to spin and move onto the next volume until I add new ones for it to use. Am I correct?

And if so. I’m taking suggestions on how to handle this smarter. I guess I should add that I have AutoPrune On. I guess if that was off, then the job would instead wait until I increased the amount of volumes allowed in the pool instead of going into this foolish loop?

Jeff.

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