Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and the like
could someone kindly help me with this.
Basically for the local intranet i would like bacula to take a full back at the
first of each month ie (October 1) then incremental each night until the first
of the next month. However I would like a separate volume for each month and
would like to keep 2 months of volumes. Does this make sense?? how are other
doing this?? I think it is safer to keep 2 volumes in case something goes wrong
with the new one! ie the only existing volume gets pruned purged
recycled/overwritten with a corrupt/incomplete backup or something!!
Here is my problem bacula is auto creating the volumes very nicely however the
first volume gets marked as full hopefully this is due to the Volume Use
Duration setting of 1 month. Is this correct? or should this get marked as
used? did something else happen like a full harddisk?
The second volume is getting marked as used still hoping this is due to the
Volume Use Duration setting. However wondering why volume one is full and
volume two is used? see below
Pool: PaulD-pool
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+
| 44 | PaulD-0044 | Full | 1 | 9,442,414,325 | 2 |
1,900,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PaulD-File | 2008-10-02 02:42:07 |
| 57 | PaulD-0057 | Used | 1 | 24,748,595,769 | 5 |
1,900,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PaulD-File | 2008-09-30 02:12:52 |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+------------+---------------------+
******HERE IS MY PROBLEM******
Bacula does not seem to be able to reuse the old volume and keeps giving me
this error why does it not just recycle the first volume 44?? why is it calling
57 the oldest volume??
08-Oct 05:30 miako-dir JobId 1817: Pruning oldest volume "PaulD-0057"
08-Oct 05:30 miako-sd JobId 1817: Job PaulD.2008-10-07_02.05.06 waiting. Cannot
find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: "PaulD-sd" (/usr/local/backups)
Pool: PaulD-pool
Media type: PaulD-File
Here are the relative bits of my conf files
Client {
Name = "PaulD"
Address = 192.168.1.114
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "c0mputerking"
File Retention = 1 months
Job Retention = 1 months
AutoPrune = yes
}
Storage {
Name = PaulD-sd
Address = 192.168.1.100
Password = "c0mputerking"
Device = "PaulD-sd"
Media Type = PaulD-File
}
Pool {
Name = "PaulD-pool"
Pool Type = Backup
LabelFormat = "PaulD-"
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 22 days
Volume Use Duration = 1 months
Maximum Volumes = 2
Recycle Oldest Volume = YES
}
Device {
Name = PaulD-sd
Media Type = PaulD-File
Archive Device = /usr/local/backups
LabelMedia = yes;
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
The client stuff is just for the database right?? i figured keep for 1 month
should I be keeping for 2 months because of the 2 volumes? what if the jobs and
files get erased after 1 month hmmm that would not be good would it? how could
i restore from the older volume maybe it should be setting this to 3 months
just in case?
I think i have the pool stuff right; create a volume retain it for 22 days ( my
lucky number hehe and less then a month) and add to it for a month. At the end
of the month the volume should get marked as used/full? and the second volume
is automatically created and added to for a month and be kept for 22 days. I am
thinking by the time bacula adds to the second volume for a month the first one
should be more than ready to be recycled.
what if i do not start the first backup at the 1st of the month? then things
might get messy? PLEASE someone with a better concept of time help me.
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