On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:15, Julien Cigar wrote:
> I had exactly the same problem two weeks ago and I still haven't found
> an explanation why Bacula do this ...
>
> Perhaps there is a bug in Bacula recycling process when you only specify
> a Volume Retention (lower than a Job / File Retention) ? But in the doc
> said : "The *Volume Retention* is applied independently of the *Job
> Retention* and the *File Retention* periods defined in the Client
> resource. This means that all the retentions periods are applied in turn
> and that the shorter period is the one that effectively takes precedence. "
Yes, but although File and Job records can be purged from the catalog when the
Volume retention period is up, no Volume will ever be recycled before the
Volume Retention period is expired even if all the Job and File records for
jobs on that Volume are all purged from the database.
There are two things happening, the above applies to prunning or purging the
database of old records.
The second thing is recycling Volumes which is only done when the Volume
retention period has expired and Bacula sees no other way of continuing.
>
> So ...
>
> Maria McKinley wrote:
> > 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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