Martin Simmons wrote:
<snip bunch of stuff>
>
> 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
>
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the answers. If I understood the emails, it sounds like the
problem may be a conflict between the File retention, job retention, and
volume retention? So, my question is, how can I set my retention periods
so that bacula behaves like I expect it to? I've printed the relevant
portions of my bacula-dir.conf file below. (This problem occurs only
with weekly backups, the daily tapes are always in the changer, so I
don't care which ones bacula uses, and the monthly I do by hand. I guess
if I could get bacula to work how I want I might trust bacula to figure
out which tapes to use for the monthly too...)
Martin, yes what you have written is true. I don't remember the
messages, but I will try to keep track of it this week. The VolStatus
for one of the volumes was Full and the other was Used.
Thanks for any advice.
# home and lab
Schedule {
Name = "NightlySave"
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st sat at 01:05
Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th sat at 01:05
Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily sun-fri at 01:05
}
Schedule {
Name = "MailBackup"
Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th sat at 01:10
}
# Client (File Services) to backup
Client {
Name = billie-fd
Address = billie
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "jkhksda8" # password for FileDaemon
File Retention = 30 days # 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months # six months
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
# Client (File Services) to backup
Client {
Name = ella-fd
Address = ella.shadlen.org
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "acxznjm98" # password for FileDaemon
File Retention = 30 days # 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months # six months
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
Pool {
Name = Weekly
#Maximum Volume Jobs = 2 # mail backup and home/lab
Volume Use Duration = 5d # only uses each tape for one week
Pool Type = Backup
Cleaning Prefix = "CLN"
AutoPrune = yes
VolumeRetention = 25d # recycle in 30 days (default)
Recycle = yes
}
cheers,
maria
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