>>>>> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:44:18 -0700, Maria McKinley said:
>
> 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
Looks strange, unless the LastWritten dates are wrong. Which version of
Bacula is this?
Also, just to be clear, on 2006-10-14 you were expecting it to use A0000006,
A0000007, B0000001 and B0000002 but it actually used B0000001 and A0000007 and
then tried to use D0000002 or B0000006 which were not in the changer, right?
What messages were printed during this job? Do you know the VolStatus of each
volume (in particular B0000006 and D0000002) before the job ran?
__Martin
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