Wanted to chime in here because after a long period of time spent
tinkering with Bacula, I have had my first successful automatic tape
rotation. I am running 1.38.5 at the moment, so I can say that tape
recycling really does NOT appear to be broken in 1.38.5 and if you are
having a problem it is probably misconfiguration. In my case, the reason
it was not working previously was because I was new to using incremental
tapes and was attempting to have them expire 1 day too early. Perhaps
the tape is due to be pruned when you run the command, but not due a few
mins earlier when the backup is scheduled? It helps to write out
everything on paper or -- even better -- a calendar.
Rob de Jong wrote:
Attila Fülöp wrote:
I had a similar problem. I fixed it by running "status dir"
a couple of times in an admin job which runs before all other jobs.
Each call of "status dir" triggers one step of the recycling
algorithm.
Excerpt form this script:
# first force bacula to update volume status
echo | /usr/local/sbin/bconsole -c /usr/local/etc/bconsole.conf 2>&1
/dev/null
<<EOF
status dir
status dir
status dir
status dir
EOF
Attila
Hi Attila,
I am going to give this a go and see the results. Thanks for the tip!
Regards,
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