Am 13.10.2008 19:05 schrieb Ryan Novosielski:
I would strongly recommend not pursuing workarounds. This part of the software works just fine. I believe if your retention settings are correct, the pruning will happen by itself after a mount, and if they aren't no amount of manual pruning will save you.
My retention settings have been posted here, and the fact that they work perfectly fine as long as none of my pools contain any volumes in "Recycled" state at the time the backup starts seems to indicate that they cannot be too far off the mark. Also, contrary to your assertion, manually applying a "prune" command to every volume after mounting it *does* in fact save me, in the sense that it reliably avoids the problem. IMHO (though I would be glad to be proven wrong) retention settings won't influence this Problem at all. The option "AutoPrune = yes" is, obviously by design, completely ineffective as soon as the pool already contains an appendable volume. In other words, if the pool requested by a job contains a volume with status=Recycled, but a different volume from the same pool has been mounted, Bacula will *not* recycle that volume *even* *if* it is eligible for recycling according to its retention settings - and is, in fact, recycled just fine by a manual "prune" command. This behaviour is proven by experiment, backed up by the documentation, and may well qualify as "working just fine". I don't want to argue that point, I am just trying to cope with it. So what do you propose? Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany
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