Hello,
On 04.10.2005 14:59, Lowe, Bryan wrote:
Thanks for your quick response.
They are marked "full". When I "inherited" this setup, I noticed (using
the GUI), that all the tapes in my Oracle pool were marked "purge". I
have no idea why my predecessor did that, or if he even did it or bacula
did it unintentionally. Could that be the problem??
No, this only shows that bacula has already used them and, after writing
what it did write, decided the tapes were full. They will only be reused
after their retention times have passed (unless you manually intervene).
Bacula decides a tape is full when it encounters a error writing on it,
but you should have these reported.
Assuming your drive needed cleaning, and you have no way of seeing the
job reports for the tpes last use, you should simply watch if bacula
still only puts very little data on the tapes. If it does, see the
system's log, the job reports, and tapeinfo output for more details. If
it doesn't, the cleaning probably did the trick.
Arno
Here's my pool config. The Oracle pool is the one I'm having issues
with. Thanks.
# Default pool definition
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle
Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
}
Pool {
Name = Windows
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 120 days
Accept Any Volume = yes
}
Pool {
Name = UnixOS
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 5 days
Accept Any Volume = yes
# Catalog Files = no
}
Pool {
Name = BrutusImages
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 5 days
Accept Any Volume = yes
Catalog Files = no
}
Pool {
Name = Oracle
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 10 days
Accept Any Volume = yes
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:46 AM
To: Lowe, Bryan
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes full?
Lowe, Bryan wrote:
Hello List-
I'm a bacula newbie that inherited this bacula setup from my
predecessor. It seems to work very well.
I have 3 separate tape drives for 3 separate backup pools. They are
Oracle, Unix, and Images. All 3 are set up exactly the same way,
except
the Oracle jobs run nightly while the Unix and Images jobs only run
once
a week.
I'm having a problem with my Oracle backups that I can't seem to put
my
finger on. I'm using SuperDLT tapes, 160GB/320GB. However, when
bacula
writes to the tape, it says that the tape is full only after writing
less than 1GB! Sometimes it will only write like 7MB! Then it prompts
me
for the next available tape. I can verify that I'm not having this
problem if dumping directly to tape from command line. I also tried
putting through a cleaning tape. Does anyone have any idea what could
cause this, or where I should start looking?
Are they marked "Full" or "Used"?
What does your Pool configuration look like?
--
IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de
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