Noone knows about ?
If so, and I haven't an answer to this until Monday the 13th, I will
create a Bug Report for this, since this seems to be an
undocumented/defected behavior of bacula.
Regards,
Marc
Marc Richter schrieb:
> Hi There!
>
> This is my first mail to this list, so please be patient, if I'm missing
> a point.
>
> We're using Bacula for several months now. As "Backup Drive" we
> configured three pools. One pool for Monthly Backups within the months
> 1,3,5,...11, one pool for Monthly Backups within the months 2,4,6,...12
> and one pool for daily backups.
> The Monthly Storages are two HDDs with a capacity of 1 TB for each month
> and the Daily Pool is a NAS System with a Capacity of 3 TB.
> For the monthly Backups there is a maximum of 230 Volumes configured,
> each 4 GB in size. This is a total capacity of 920 GB.
>
> This week, the backup stopped, because the currently running job "is
> waiting for an appendable Volume".
> Our Volumes in that Pool/Storage are named
> Monatssicherung_gerade_VolumeNr.000 through
> Monatssicherung_gerade_VolumeNr.229 . The Volumes
> Monatssicherung_gerade_VolumeNr.001 through
> Monatssicherung_gerade_VolumeNr.029 didn't exist. Neither within the
> Filesystem, nor in the "list media pool=Monatssicherung_gerade_Pool"
> listing.
>
> In the past, bacula created these new Volumes itself, since this is the
> (so far as I understood the Config's Syntax while I set it up)
> configured behavior. But this time it just didn't. It hung and waited
> for ME to label a new Volume for it manually.
> I did so for 2 Volumes, hoping this "kickstarts" bacula's Auto-Labeling
> function, but it didn't.
>
> Here is my Config for the concerned Pool and Device setup:
>
> Pool {
> Name = "Monatssicherung_gerade_Pool"
> Pool Type = "Backup"
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 4294967296 # 4 GB
> Maximum Volumes = 230 # 4 GB * 230 Volumes = ca. max
> 920 GB
> Label Format =
> "Monatssicherung_gerade_VolumeNr.${NumVols:p/3/0/r}"
> AutoPrune = "yes"
> Volume Retention = 55 days
> Recycle = "yes"
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = "monatsbackup_gerade_device"
> Device Type = "File"
> Media Type = "Wechselfestplatte"
> Autochanger = "no"
> Archive Device = "/server/data/backup/bacula_wechselrahmen"
> LabelMedia = "yes"
> Random Access = "Yes"
> AutomaticMount = "yes"
> RemovableMedia = "no"
> AlwaysOpen = "yes"
> }
>
> As far as I know, the "LabelMedia" Option within the Device's Definition
> should create Volumes if they are needed up to a limit of 230 Volumes
> with a size of 4 GB each.
>
> Further, bacula should try to preserve Data as long as it's possible.
> So, labeling a new volume should be preferred to recycling pruned Volumes.
> I lowered the Volume Retention Time from 60 to 55 days. This I did,
> because there once were a Retention time of 60 Days configured, later
> lowered to 55 Days, but the existing Volumes never have been updated
> with these settings. So I did, using the update command to "clean" the
> Config.
> This pruned some Volumes, wich were older than 55 days, but not older
> than 60 days. So bacula used these pruned Volumes to recycle them and
> finish the Backup. The Volumes *.003 through *.029 are still missing.
>
> I know that I can label them manually, but I want to Know why bacula
> stopped doing it automatically.
> Further, I want to know, why bacula recycles Volumes (which destroys
> data) instead of creating new ones and if this is a Bug which should be
> reported.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> greetings,
> Marc
>
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