Kevin Keane a écrit : > If my math is right, the 12th is the 13th day of the retention period. > Since the previous job finished at 22:43, and your new job started at > 22:38, the rentention period hadn't elapsed yet, by about five minutes. > The reason it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't is simply the timing > between the jobs. > Actually, I don't agree with your maths, sorry :) The 12th was the 14th day of the retention period. 29th 22:43:13 => start of retention, day/hour 0 30th 22:43:13 => 1st day 31th 22:43:13 => 2nd day 1st 22:43:13 => 3rd day 2nd 22:43:13 => 4th day ... 11th 22:43:13 => 13th day : job could be pruned, and then the volume 12th 22:38 => job is still there, volume is still not recycled ???
So basically it looks more like a Job pruning problem ? > As you back up larger jobs, this problem is going to > get worse. You really need more than 12 volumes for a 13 day retention > period. I have 14 volumes : 2 full (1 day per week) + 12 incremental (6 days per week). So even if the job stopped one day after schedule (I limit the job to 20 hours by the way), when the "two week after" job should takes place (should it be Full or Incr), the volume should already have been recycled. That's why I choosed this 13 days Retention time, and not 14. Or perhaps I am wrong and don't understand some basic thing here ? > Personally, I would suggest you consider letting Bacula automatically > label volumes as needed. Also, with bi-weekly backups, you may want to > consider 15 days instead of 13 days as your retention period. Otherwise, > bacula has to delete an older backup just before doing the next one, and > you'd be left with just one backup on your disk. If that is somehow > corrupted, you'd have a problem. > I know that, but that's a choice that I have made, I should restrict the size of backups that I have (more than 6To actually, keeping one more Full Jobs would mean about 9To...). Regards, -- Yann Cézard - Administrateur Systèmes Serveurs Centre de Ressources Informatiques - http://cri.univ-pau.fr Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour - http://www.univ-pau.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
