Hi, Bacula doesn't mark a volume used at the exact time you specified as this would require it to be constantly checking for expired volumes which isn't necessary.
Rather, it'll mark it used as soon after the expiry time as it notices it. Normally this is the next time it goes to check that volume to see if it's still usable. (Either because it's about to start a backup, or someone has done a status dir and listed jobs that might need that volume) In your case, I suspect your nightly admin job failed to do this check because you probably have incrementals scheduled between your differential jobs. Bacula would only check the tapes it had scheduled for the next 'set' of jobs (ie Your incremental jobs for that evening) You can change this by updating your admin job to do 'status dir days=7' which will make it pay attention to the future differential jobs as well. Hope this helps, Troy. Ralf Gross wrote: > Hi, > > bacula 2.0.3, debian etch, psql 8.1 > > My diff pool has a voluseduration of 4 days (96h). I just got a mail > from bacula that tape 06D124L3 was marked as used, because the > voluseduration exceeded. Thats fine, but the tape was last used on > 2007-06-24. I think the tape should have been marked as used 4 days > after that. I run an admin job each day on 18:05 which issues a > 'status dir'. I know that the algorithms bacula uses for > pruning/recycling/reuse are compicated, but the voluseduration is a > fix time span. > > > 04-Jul 18:05 VU0EM005: Max configured use duration exceeded. Marking > Volume "06D124L3" as Used. > > This is the 'llist pool' output from 04-Jul-2007 12:46:06. The tape > was still marked as Append, although the last write was 10 days ago. > > Pool: Differential > mediaid: 5 > volumename: 06D124L3 > slot: 5 > poolid: 5 > mediatype: LTO3 > firstwritten: 2007-06-24 00:07:06 > lastwritten: 2007-06-24 01:10:37 > labeldate: 2007-06-24 00:07:06 > voljobs: 3 > volfiles: 80 > volblocks: 1,218,227 > volmounts: 4 > volbytes: 78,590,324,736 > volerrors: 0 > volwrites: 1,514,788 > volcapacitybytes: 0 > volstatus: Append > enabled: 1 > recycle: 1 > volretention: 2,678,400 > voluseduration: 345,600 > [...] > > > Now the status changed to Used. > > Is this the normal behavior? Why didn't bacula notice the exceeded > voluseduration after the configured 4 days instead of 10? > > Ralf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
