Thanks for the tip; I'll change some settings and see how it goes.
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Raubenheimer
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 17:14
To: Jeremy Koppel
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Retention / recycling clarification
Hi,
as long as bacula finds appendable volumes it tries to append to them.
The volume retention period begins when the volume status changes from
append to whatever.
Add eg.
Volume Use Duration = 20 hours
to the pool resource and bacula will change status from appendable to
used 20 hours after first use. After the volume status has changed the
volume retention period begins.
Regards
Helmut
Jeremy Koppel schrieb:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm getting some behavior I didn't expect while trying to
> set up a rotation schedule for one of the sites I manage. They have a
> single server with a single VS160 tape drive. I have it run a full
> backup early Thursday and incrementals fri-wed; and have 2 tapes per
> pool, which I plan to rotate. Config is below.
>
>
>
> Trouble is, from the 'list volumes' command, it looks like
> Bacula will want to append to the DailyA1 tape, instead of rewinding
the
> tape and overwriting it from scratch. And I actually had that happen
at
> our main site, too; it kept appending until the backup failed in the
> middle, asking for a new tape. How do I get it to really recycle the
tape?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> --Jeremy Koppel
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *_Shortened output from 'list volumes':_*
>
>
+---------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------
------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>
> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | volbytes | volfiles |
> volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
>
>
+---------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------
------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>
> | 1 | DailyA1 | Append | 33,101,955,019 | 46 |
> 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 1 | VS160 | 2006-03-01
> 01:00:32 |
>
>
>
>
>
> *_Config:_*
>
> *_ _*
>
> # ************************* Schedules *************************
>
> Schedule {
>
> Name = "BiweeklyCycle"
>
> Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly thu at 1:00
>
> Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily fri-wed at 1:00
>
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> # *************************** Pools ***************************
>
> Pool {
>
> Name = Daily
>
> Pool Type = Backup
>
> Recycle = yes
>
> AutoPrune = yes
>
> Volume Retention = 9
>
> Accept Any Volume = yes
>
> }
>
>
>
> Pool {
>
> Name = Weekly
>
> Pool Type = Backup
>
> Recycle = yes
>
> AutoPrune = yes
>
> Volume Retention = 9 days .
>
> Accept Any Volume = yes
>
> }
>
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