On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 - 9:35am, Thomas Simmons wrote: > Hello, > I just realized that bacula is recycling previously written tapes before > taking > any from the scratch pool. My pool directives are below. With this setup, I > would think that bacula *could* overwrite any tape after four weeks, but > shouldn't if any are available in the scratch pool. Unfortunately, I still > have > nine tapes available in my scratch pool and tapes in the full pool are being > overwritten. AFAIK the Scratch-Pool is only used if _no other tape_ is available. If there is one, that one will be used.
What you are looking for is the "Use Oldest Volume" directive, or something close to it. Please read the manual for it. > This brings to light one other question. A few months back the 1.37 and early > 1.38 versions of bacula had a problem with jobs failing when the tape device > was writing to a tape in one pool and a job started that required a tape in > another pool. Has this been fixed yet? My temporary solution has been to use a > single pool, as can be seen below, but I would really like to setup a > full-diff-inc schedule. At 9pm I have ~10 jobs started, though they all use the same pool. I would say that its working anyway, if you have a tape-library that automagically changes the tape and gets one from the correct pool. One tape can only belong to one pool. Besides that its not a problem to have full/div/inc tapes in one pool. For example, if you define a Job as 'differential' and a Job Retention of 6 days, the backup on the 7th day will always be a full backup, cause Bacula ensures that there's always a valid full backup for a FileSet/Job. Have a nice day, Michael -- I love deadlines, especially the sound they make as they go whooshing by. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
