> On Monday 11 September 2006 20:21, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> ANALYSIS: So.. the volume's usage period is being determined not by
>> when it was first written to, but instead by the start time of the
>> first job that wrote to it.
>>
>> Is this behavior known?  Is it fixed in current?  Obviously it's not
>> a crucial flaw, but if its decided not to fix it then it should be
>> documented.

On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> All pruning is based on the termination time of the Job concerned  
> not the
> start time of the job.
>
> The manual was not very explicit on this, so I have made it so.   
> Note, in a
> few exceptional cases (Bacula crashes between the time the job  
> starts and the
> job terminates), the "End time" of the job will be set to the start  
> time of
> the Job.  Any job that is correctly terminated by Bacula (normal,  
> warning,
> error, fail, ...) will have the End time set correctly.

I hate to argue, but here's the facts in this case:

1. Started at 11:05
2. Didn't get resources until 23:09
3. Finished OK

And yet, the volume stops being usable at exactly 11:05 the next  
morning.

10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Start Backup JobId 258,  
Job=hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00
10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Max configured use duration exceeded.  
Marking Volume "clients-0003" as Used.
10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 11:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00  
waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
     Storage:      "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients)
     Media type:   File_clients
     Pool:         clients_Pool
10-Sep 12:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 12:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00  
waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
     Storage:      "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients)
     Media type:   File_clients
     Pool:         clients_Pool
10-Sep 14:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 14:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00  
waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
     Storage:      "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients)
     Media type:   File_clients
     Pool:         clients_Pool
10-Sep 18:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 18:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00  
waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
     Storage:      "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients)
     Media type:   File_clients
     Pool:         clients_Pool
10-Sep 22:08 backup0-dir: Recycled volume "clients-0004"
10-Sep 22:08 backup0-sd: Recycled volume "clients-0004" on device  
"Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients), all previous data lost.
10-Sep 23:09 backup0-dir: Bacula 1.38.5 (18Jan06): 10-Sep-2006 23:09:58
   JobId:                  258
   Job:                    hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00
   Backup Level:           Incremental, since=2006-09-09 11:05:01
   Client:                 "hostname.client.com-fd" i386-portbld- 
freebsd6.1,freebsd,6.1-STABLE
   FileSet:                "hostname.client.com-fileset" 2006-07-09  
09:03:40
   Pool:                   "clients_Pool"
   Storage:                "Disk_clients"
   Scheduled time:         10-Sep-2006 11:05:00
   Start time:             10-Sep-2006 11:05:01
   End time:               10-Sep-2006 23:09:58
   Priority:               10
   FD Files Written:       699,861
   SD Files Written:       699,861
   FD Bytes Written:       5,540,243,949
   SD Bytes Written:       5,636,912,236
   Rate:                   127.4 KB/s
   Software Compression:   None
   Volume name(s):         clients-0004
   Volume Session Id:      240
   Volume Session Time:    1156008818
   Last Volume Bytes:      5,665,530,747
   Non-fatal FD errors:    0
   SD Errors:              0
   FD termination status:  OK
   SD termination status:  OK
   Termination:            Backup OK

10-Sep 23:09 backup0-dir: Begin pruning Jobs.
10-Sep 23:09 backup0-dir: No Jobs found to prune.
10-Sep 23:09 backup0-dir: Begin pruning Files


-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation


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