Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:34, Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> 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. > > Thanks. Good point. I have never been able to reproduce the problem. One > problem is that recycling is fairly sophisticated (or complicated if you > want) and probably some users are forgetting that Bacula will not recycle > a > Volume even if it is totally pruned if the Volume Retention period has not > expired ... >
Hi, Good to know it works for some. But it still does not explain why it consistently keeps failing for us. I know *for sure* that the Volume period has indeed expired. We have 18 tapes rotating daily with a 10 day retention time. I have checked manually and counted (!) the days since the "Last written" value by hand before inserting a tape and the difference is at least 2,3 days, not seconds. If the volume retention was not expired then why did the prune work perfectly right before the mount request was generated? My suspicion is that the pruning does indeed work but that the volume status update does not happen correctly (or not fast enough). How else it possible that this happens: 1. Start backup 2. Check tape (in status 'Used') and prune *all* jobs automatically as volume retention has expired (because Recycle Current Volume, Autoprune and Recycle are set) 3. Check tape (still in status 'Used') 4. Generate mount request. 5. Confirm manually the mount request (with the same tape and just seconds later than the mount request!) 6. Backup starts on the same tape. My err for calling this a "pruning bug". More likely a "volume update issue"? Regards, -- Patrick Van der Veken Qtris BV ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
