Hi Robert,
Your configuration file doesn't specify how many volumes Bacula is
allowed to create or what the maximum size of any volume can be... so it
happily continues to create them whenever it needs to. Or at least it
would except that as you say the disk fills up!
Try restricting the maximum size of each volume to say 4GB and the
maximum number of volumes to something that would fit on your drive. It
may be that Bacula would need two or more volumes to back up a fileset
but that's OK, and if anything, more preferable to having one huge
volume per job.
Try adding the following lines to your pool definition: -
Maximum Volumes = 80
Maximum Volume Bytes = 4509715660 # 4.2GB
The only other thing I can think of is that some of your keywords do not
have spaces in them (e.g. VolumeRetention instead of "Volume
Retention"). I haven't read the manual that closely to say if that is
illegal or not. I just used it exactly as shown in the manual.
- David.
Robert Eaton wrote:
>
> I have a simple volume recycle problem. I’ve searched posts and see
> similar problems but have not found the answer.
>
> I have a small system that backs up to a external USB hard drive. I
> can’t get bacula to overwrite/reuse a volume name on the physical device.
>
> Details:
>
> Pool {
>
> Name = "RKSBackup"
>
> PoolType = "Backup"
>
> Recycle = "yes"
>
> AutoPrune = "yes"
>
> VolumeRetention = 7 days
>
> RecycleOldestVolume = "yes"
>
> PurgeOldestVolume = "yes"
>
> Volume Use Duration = 6 days
>
> LabelFormat = "Week-"
>
> }
>
> I recycle my backups every 4 weeks. My backup volumes are
> Week-1,Week-2...Week-4.
>
> At then end of Week-1 the next volume (Week-2) will be used and they
> just keep rotating.... this works perfect.
>
> Problem:
>
> If there is not enough physical room on the USB hard drive to finish a
> backup or start a new one then I’m prompted to mount a new volume. The
> only way I’ve found to get around this problem is to manually delete
> the oldest volume from the USB hard drive. I thought that is what the
> Recycle and AutoPrune parameters would do. Looks like these parameters
> update the catalog but they don’t physically remove the data from the
> backup drive. How do I tell Bacula to overwrite the actual data on the
> backup device?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
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