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I don't think recycle oldest volume is necessary. I do not use it, and I
have everything set up just fine. You should only need proper retention
times and duration/jobs per volume settings.
Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:33:39PM +0200, Marco Strullato wrote:
>> From: Marco Strullato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:33:39 +0200
>> Subject: [Bacula-users] backup rotation
>>
>> hi all!
>>
>> I've set up backups with bacula to do full backup on sunday and incrental
>> from monday to saturday. My backups are only on disks; I'd like to have one
>> volume for job. Moreover I need automatic recycling of volumes so volumes
>> should "rotate".
>>
>> I choose to have 8 volumes but maybe it is not necessary; At the beginning I
>> set the pool parameter "Recycle" to "no" because Bacula used just one
>> volume: with "no" bacula wrote me correctly a volume file for each job.
>>
>> After 8 backups all volumes are "Used" and any other backup is possible.
>> Bacula correctly waits for a new volume.
>> Today I change this directive to yes and re launch backup.
>> Status of the 1st volume is change to "Purged" but backup does not start.
>>
>> I think I have done some mistakes in configuration. Can you help me?
>> Pool configuration is the following. Do you need more configuration file?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Pool {
>> Name = PoolRaffaello
>> Use Volume Once = yes
>> Pool Type = Backup
>> LabelFormat = "Raffaello-"
>> AutoPrune = yes
>> VolumeRetention = 7 days
>> Maximum Volumes = 8
>> Recycle = yes
>> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
>> }
>>
>
> Looks like you are missing the "Recycle Oldest Volume"
> parameter. Also, it might be a good idea to set the maximum volume use
> duration to one day (see the docs) and not try limiting it by the
> number of jobs.
>
> Also remember that you'll need to "update pool from resource
> definition" in bconsole once you've changed the pool resource.
>
> HTH,
>
> uwe
>
>
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