On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> 04.12.2008 19:41, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> Single catalog. When the second pool was added, there were 3260 volumes in
> Foo_Pool (from Foo-0001 to Foo-3260). Everything works, but the first
>> backup that went to Bar_Pool created a volume called Bar-3261, when I was
>> expecting Bar-0001. Why is this?
>
> That's because Bacula uses the overall number of known volumes, not
> the number of volumes per pool. This decreases the probability that it
> tries to create a volume which already exists (though it doesn't
> absolutely prevent that).
Arno,
Thanks for your reply. I do indeed see from the description of the
automatic volume labeling feature that this is the case, and that this is
what bacula actually does. In the 'Pool' section, under the description of
Label Format, however, it says otherwise:
"If no variable expansion characters are found in the string, the
Volume name will be formed from the format string appended with the
number of volumes in the pool plus one,..."
where it actually means "...number of volumes in the catalog plus one...".
I will probably switch to using multiple catalogs.
Steve
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