Hi All,

          Just joined the mailing list. Was hopefully looking for a bit of support/advise on an issue were having with my version of bacula. We are currently running version 5.0.1 of bacula on an Ubuntu 10.04.4. 99% of our servers are being backed up just fine. There is an issue with our mail file server. We use virtual full backups for our file server as they are so large to backup.

 

Because the Virtual Full Backups bacula takes the last Full backup and all the incremental and full backups since then to create the new virtual full. We have 2 media pools, so bacula will read from one and write to the other when it create its virtual fulls. We had an issue with our last virtual full this month and as you can see from the output below the virtual full for July is using pool-2 so augusts backup when I run it should be saved in pool-1. However it’s not.

 

When I run the command     ‘run job=Filesrv1-Job level=VirtualFull pool=Filesrv1-Full-Pool’   to tell bacula save your job to pool one it doesn’t. It saves the job to pool-2. This is going to be an issue when next month backups run as bacula will try and read from and write to the same pool (I think).

 

 

*list media pool=Filesrv1-Full-Pool-1

Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog

Using Catalog "MyCatalog"

+---------+-----------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

| MediaId | VolumeName      | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |

+---------+-----------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

|     825 | Filesrv1-Full-0825 | Used      |       1 | 964,209,753,069 |      224 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-06-14 19:15:13 |

|     826 | Filesrv1-Full-0826 | Used      |       1 | 974,219,146,740 |      226 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-04-04 04:08:18 |

|   1,125 | Filesrv1-Full-1125 | Used      |       1 | 494,968,292,302 |      115 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-06-06 02:05:25 |

|   1,159 | Filesrv1-Full-1159 | Purged    |       1 | 613,960,668,148 |      142 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-08-08 03:08:01 |

+---------+-----------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

*

*

*list media pool=Filesrv1-Full-Pool-2

+---------+-----------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

| MediaId | VolumeName      | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |

+---------+-----------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

|     545 | Filesrv1-Full-0545 | Used      |       1 | 654,598,829,331 |      152 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-08-24 13:38:24 |

|     947 | Filesrv1-Full-0947 | Used      |       1 | 653,960,245,159 |      152 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-07-04 01:39:19 |

|   1,107 | Filesrv1-Full-1107 | Used      |       1 | 967,682,860,087 |      225 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-03-07 03:45:05 |

|   1,156 | Filesrv1-Full-1156 | Used      |       1 | 965,401,107,787 |      224 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-01-03 03:15:47 |

|   1,466 | Filesrv1-Full-1466 | Used      |       1 | 389,975,019,080 |       90 |   15,552,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2015-05-02 01:39:11 |

+---------+-----------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

 

I’ve tried purging the job from pool-2 deleting the file from the server and running again and it keeps saving to pool-2. Any suggestions id be grateful and im tearing my hair out trying to figure out whats wrong.

 

 

Kind Regards

Anthony McGovern

IT Systems Administrator

 

Wellington Building 

Griffith College

South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland

 

Website: http://www.griffith.ie

 

Disclaimer:

This E-mail is from Griffith College Dublin.

The E-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may be privileged and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

If you are not the addressee you are prohibited from disclosing its content, copying it or distributing it otherwise than to the addressee. If you have received this e-mail in error,

please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the e-mail from your computer. Griffith College is a trading name of Bellerophon Ltd, 

(registered in Ireland No. 60469) with its registered address as Griffith College Campus,South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland.

 

 

P Think before you print!