-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bacula will also not purge an appendable volume, as far as I know. You need to make sure that the tape is not in a writable state prior to when you expect it to be purged; others reading this list feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Volume retention is a minimum, not a maximum. If there is no pressing need to recycle/prune a tape, Bacula will not (if it's still appendable, for example). You need to limit tape usage by size/jobs/time in order for this to work as you expect, I think. ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Costyn van Dongen wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Okay yes that is a good point. > > However, the behaviour we are seeing is that the volume is still on > status 'Append' 2 weeks later (tapes get re-used every 2 weeks). Bacula > will happily start writing to the tape, and not recycle it first, which > it should because Volume Retention is 11 days. > > Writing to this tape will fail after a while because the tape will be full. > > So I guess the root cause would be that the Volume Retention variable is > not being used correctly. Because after 14 days all files should be > removed from the Catalog and the volume marked purged. > > Does anyone know if there are timeouts on the mysql jobs doing the > purging? There are a *lot* of rows in File table and a timeout would > cause the jobs not to be purged correctly, I would assume. > > mysql> select count(*) from File; > +----------+ > | count(*) | > +----------+ > | 93317027 | > +----------+ > 1 row in set (6 min 57.45 sec) > > Yes, we have a lot of files, but the mysql database seems to keep on > growing without there being a similar increase in number of files we are > backing up. > > This is the only reason I can think of at the moment, a timeout on the > mysql query doing the purging. > > Thoughts? > > Kind regards, > > Costyn van Dongen. > > Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> The change occurs at the next attempted backup. That tape will be >> suggested for use, Bacula will check the duration and see that it is >> unacceptable because of the Volume Use Duration. Bacula will then use a >> different tape. >> >> ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ >> |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III >> |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) >> \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEs9Gkmb+gadEcsb4RAvHBAJ41Jqb7OXUXUOJH8xPyXBaX6nHuGACg47Vz a6/Qxn4YiyrA+dvKM0uDL1M= =ZCBn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
