On Friday 08 July 2005 15:48, Michel Meyers wrote: > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > I can't seem to set the recycle time correctly. It's now 86400 seconds > > (one day), but it STILL tries to _append_ to the tape... > > I cite the manual: > > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html > "Automatic recycling of Volumes is performed by Bacula ***only when*** > it wants a new Volume and ***no appendable Volumes are available in the > Pool***." > > If that tape is marked as appendable at the start of the backup, Bacula > has no need to recycle any volumes (it still has one that's OK for > starting a backup on).
> Now once in the middle, it gets to the point > where the volume is full and it cannot continue, at which point it > recycles the volume (I wonder why it does that to a volume that it just > wrote to? Maybe because the job hasn't been committed to the database > yet?) but as you can see that is too late. This is a bug that I will either fix in 1.37 or soon after 1.38 is released. Bacula should never prune and hence recycle the last valid Full,... backup it has done. For some strange reason, I never implemented code to check and no one complained until recently. There is already an open bug report on this. > > Your other issue (incorrect VolBytes) is probably related to that one. > > My next question would be: Are you using only one tape in that pool? If > yes, did you apply what is said under 'Making Bacula Use a Single Tape' > in the manual? > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION000 >235000000000000000 > > Greetings, > Michel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar > happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest > in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event > hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit > http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
