Steve Barnes wrote:
> Hi
>
> My daily backup is using one and a half tapes. Next week, when the same
> backup runs (I use a pool for each day of the week), bacula will ask me
> for the non-full tape.
>
> How can I configure bacula to always use the first of the two tapes?
>
> Max Volume Jobs = 1
>
> doesn't (seem to) help since I run a DailyBackup and then a
> CatalogBackup job; once the DailyBackup is complete, the CatalogBackup
> refuses to run because the tape has been marked as used...
>
> My pool definitions are typically:
>
> Pool {
> Name = MonWk1Pool
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes
> AutoPrune = yes
> Volume Retention = 6d
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> }
>
> Thank you
>
> Steve.
>
There's a couple of ways to deal with this. The most elegant is to put
"Volume Use Duration = 23h" (check the manual for the exact syntax) in
the pool (make sure you update your media from the pool definition after
you change it using the update command).
Another way would be to put "Max Volume Jobs = 2", since you have
exactly 2 jobs each day.
It probably would have been best to not have separate pools for each
day, but I suppose that does make it easier to know which tapes have
which days backups on them.
A third way would be to use a script launched from a run after job on
the last job each day to invoke bconsole and mark the tape as used--this
is the most complicated and possibly least desirable way.
-se
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