Hi there,
I know this subject has come up before, but I couldn't find a satisfying
answer (could be because I got frustrated with both the gmane and
sourceforge interfaces). I have 16 tapes that I am using for a weekly
backup that takes 4 tapes. I can't get it to cycle through the tapes in
a sane way. For example:
*list volumes pool=Weekly
+---------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
|
+---------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| 4 | A0000006 | Full | 79362076751 | 79 | 2160000
| 1 | 4 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-09 05:15:23 |
| 5 | A0000007 | Full | 100904116589 | 100 | 2160000
| 1 | 5 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-14 12:41:53 |
| 9 | B0000001 | Full | 99954370892 | 99 | 2160000
| 1 | 6 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-14 08:08:54 |
| 10 | B0000002 | Used | 77612588182 | 79 | 2160000
| 1 | 7 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-09 19:05:25 |
| 11 | B0000005 | Full | 78808048051 | 78 | 2160000
| 1 | 4 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-16 18:53:08 |
| 12 | B0000006 | Purged | 79411170848 | 79 | 2160000
| 1 | 5 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-16 11:39:32 |
| 17 | D0000002 | Recycle | 1 | 0 | 2160000
| 1 | 6 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-16 05:37:07 |
| 18 | A0000001 | Full | 78939313776 | 79 | 2160000
| 1 | 7 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-17 17:59:50 |
| 32 | E0000005 | Full | 100050107110 | 100 | 2160000
| 1 | 4 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-30 18:55:36 |
| 37 | A0000002 | Full | 101892440467 | 101 | 2160000
| 1 | 5 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-30 23:34:33 |
| 52 | F0000007 | Full | 106290481269 | 106 | 2160000
| 1 | 6 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-01 04:42:56 |
| 53 | F0000008 | Used | 12416649864 | 13 | 2160000
| 1 | 7 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-01 05:44:07 |
+---------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
Why did bacula decide to recycle/purge tapes that were last written on
Sept 16 instead of a volume that was last written on Sept 9th? I'm sure
there is some logical reason for this, but it is not obvious to me, and
I therefor don't know what I can do to remedy the situation. I'm
wondering if there is some other way to cycle through these tapes so
that it is easier to predict which four tapes bacula will want each
week. Right now I have to play a game where I disable tapes as bacula
picks the wrong ones until bacula picks a tape that I have put in the
changer (for what I thought were logical reasons!). Here is my current
weekly definition:
Pool {
Name = Weekly
Volume Use Duration = 5d # only uses each tape for one week
Pool Type = Backup
Cleaning Prefix = "CLN"
AutoPrune = yes
VolumeRetention = 25d
Recycle = yes
}
How can I do this better? Thanks for any advice, cheers, Maria
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