Our Daily pool finally filled up after a year of writing to it. Our changer was asking to label a volume "Daily-xxxx" which all of our tapes are L3xxxxxx from bar codes. I figured out that this was happening because of the directive "Label Format" that I had specified. I commented out the directive and deleted the virtual media entries from the database and tried the mount command without specify a slot. It stopped asking for a volume name, but the said there was no appendable media. I read through the Automatic Volume Recycling chapter (http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html) and everything seems to be in place. I've set Autoprune = yes and Recycle = yes some time ago with a volume retention of 4 months. I've checked all this in bconsole and everything is correct.
Now, from the chapter I get from this section: "By setting AutoPrune to yes you will permit Bacula to automatically prune all Volumes in the Pool when a Job needs another Volume. Volume pruning means removing records from the catalog. It does not shrink the size of the Volume or affect the Volume data until the Volume gets overwritten. When a Job requests another volume and there are no Volumes with Volume Status Append available, Bacula will begin volume pruning. This means that all Jobs that are older than the VolumeRetention period will be pruned from every Volume that has Volume Status Full or Used and has Recycle set to yes. Pruning consists of deleting the corresponding Job, File, and JobMedia records from the catalog database. No change to the physical data on the Volume occurs during the pruning process. When all files are pruned from a Volume (i.e. no records in the catalog), the Volume will be marked as Purged implying that no Jobs remain on the volume. The Pool records that control the pruning are described below." This tells me that when there are no appendable volumes, bacula will search through the pool and prune all jobs and files from all media that the last written date is greater then the VolumeRetention period. This also seems to indicate that this pruning overrides any retention period that may be set in the client directive. However, the behavior that I've seen tonight seems to indicate that this is not the case. Our client directive has the file retention period set to 2 years and the job retention set for 5 years. We have our back-ups in a GFS rotation and would like our monthly back-ups to archived for this long. Please advise me how to know exactly what is going on and set this up the way we would like. Thank you, Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences Computer Support Brigham Young University
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