Phil Stracchino wrote:
Brandon Evans wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new to Bacula, still trying wrap my head around the volumes /
Pools deals. Right now I have bacula backing up 1 linux box and 1
windows 2003 server.
When backing up the windows server, Bacula stops at 17Gigs and says the
Volume is full. I have "Maximum Voulme bytes" set to 100 Gigs. So I am
not sure why this is happening. I have tried purging the volume and
running the backup job again, but I get the same results.
Here is the Pool that the volume is related to. Am I missing something?
Pool {
Name = Full-Pool-win1
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # automatically recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 1 month
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Maximum Volume Bytes = 100000000000
Label Format = Full-win1
Maximum Volumes = 1
}
Is it aborting in the middle of the job, or does it finish one job, then
stop and declare the tape used?
The job is still running:
Running Jobs:
Full Backup job win1.domain.com JobId=37 Volume=""
device="/mnt/coraid/bacula"
Files=159,820 Bytes=17,225,920,189 Bytes/sec=221,117
FDReadSeqNo=1,932,630 in_msg=1455188 out_msg=5 fd=8
The volume is being marked Full
Pool: Full-Pool-win1
+---------+---------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
--------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+----------------------+
| 10 | Full-win10001 | Full | 17,247,217,572 | 0 |
2,505,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2005-09-20 20:08:31 |
+---------+---------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+-----------+
If the latter is the case, it's doing exactly what you told it to do:
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
You've told it to write one job, and ONLY one job, per volume, and then
mark that volume as Used.
The "Maximum Volume Jobs" directive is one that a lot of people use
without really understanding what it does or why they're using it, and
in most cases they shouldn't be. There are cases in which you want that
directive, but they're generally exceptional cases with special
requirements. If you're a beginning Bacula user and you think you need
to use Maximum Volume Jobs, the odds are you're mistaken.
I will loose the Max Vloumes while I am in the process of learning
Bacula. Thanks for the advice & explination
On the other hand, if it's aborting in the middle of the job, then
that's a separate problem. Have you run a btape test on your storage
device and verified that it's correctly configured?
The device is a File located on a partation with 120 Gigs free.
--
Thanks,
Brandon Evans
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