On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:01:15AM -0800, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > I am pretty sure I am missing something fairly fundamental in the way volumes > are recycled, I've read through the docs, checking the list postings, but > have been unable to get a handle on this. > > Basically, if I start with a new set of volumes, with a retention period of 6 > days, all is good until the 2nd week, then the tapes fill up and are not > automatically recycled. Then I end up having to manually PURGE the volumes so > that backups work properly. Basically, we can consistently fit 26-27gb on a > tape. Normal daily backup is about 23gb. > > Link to all the relevant conf files > > http://www.pdscc.com/troubleshooting/
>From your bacula-dir.conf it looks like your job retention is 30 days. As I understand bacula it won't (automatically) prune volumes unless it has purged all jobs referring to this volume. > > What am I missing so that I don't have to baby it? > -- > Harondel J. Sibble > Sibble Computer Consulting > Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com > (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- Sebastian Stark -- http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/~stark Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
