On 14 Jun 2006 at 11:42, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Nicholas Accad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > I have been using bacula for some time now, and I am having an .. > > um.. interesting situation. I am currently using 1.38.9, compiled > > from source on a Debian/Sarge machine. > > > > I have ~50 clients, each client has its own job, so 50+ jobs. > > > > If I set the Volume Use Duration to anything other than 0 (zero), > > the Volume status is set to "Used" after the first job is run, which > > - after reading the manual - is the expected behaviour. > > You are doing something wrong. I have more than one system with > VolumeUseDuration set to 24 hours, so it uses a new tape each day. It > sounds like you've incidentally got another setting causing this -- > isn't there a MaxJobsPerVolume or similar setting? > > > But this is not what I want since I want all my jobs to go on the > > same tape. > > > > Sooo. I set the Volume Use Duration to 0 (zero), and this lets all > > my jobs go to the same tape, YES, SUCCESS, CHAMPAGNE...etc > > > > Except, the tape status is set to "Append" after the last job is > > done, now this is not what I want at all, this leaves the door wide > > open for problems. > > What problems? This is expected. The volume will be appendable until > some circumstance changes that status. > > > So to summarize: > > > > 1. Use Duration > 0, only 1 job per volume, bad > > Again, this is not expected. Can you provide more details of your > setup? I suspect one of two things: 1) Either you're setting this > value so low that it expires before the > first job is finished. > 2) Or some other setting is kicking in first. > > > 2. Use Duration = 0, all jobs on the same volume, status = Append, > > also bad > > What is it you're trying to accomplish? I'm unclear as to what it is > you want to happen.
Problem solved via IRC. The OP thought duration applied to each day, not the life of the volume. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
