>>>>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:09:59 -0600, Brian Clarkson said:
>
> Is there a way to paginate the response from these list commands? I
> have 37k entries in this pool ...
Not within Bacula, but you can use the @output command in bconsole:
@output /tmp/out.txt
list media pool=Default
@output
and then open /tmp/out.txt in a text editor.
You can also run bconsole in a GNU Emacs shell (as long as bconsole is built
without conio).
__Martin
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:38 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Brian Clarkson <bri...@lnstar.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 16:11 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Brian Clarkson <bri...@lnstar.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:06 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > >> >> >> Make the volume retention much longer. And then apply that to all
> > >> >> >> of
> > >> >> >> your volumes.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Wouldn't the volume retention period need to be shorter?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Retention period is how long to keep the volume before it can be
> > >> >> reused.
> > >> >
> > >> > So if I don't want to reuse volumes I should set the retention period
> > >> > to
> > >> > zero?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Definitely not. I know telling bacula to keep your backup data for 0
> > >> seconds is not what you want. Set this to the amount of time you want
> > >> to keep your data after the backup is finished.
> > >>
> > >> > Reusing the files (a volume is just a collection of 512m files per my
> > >> > configuration) is what I want to stop.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> I got you there. As you mentioned you need to turn off automatic
> > >> volume recycling. Please post your configs. Have you had bacula reload
> > >> the config file after you have changed it?
> > >
> > > I restarted the bacula director after making the changes. Subsequent
> > > backup jobs still re-used files.
> > >
> > > >From bacula-dir.conf
> > >
> > > Pool {
> > > Name = Default
> > > Label Format = "${JobName}-${Level}-${NumVols}"
> > > Pool Type = Backup
> > > Recycle = no
> > > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> > > Use Volume Once = yes
> > > Volume Retention = 25 days
> > > MaximumVolumeBytes = 512m
> > > Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> > > }
> > >
> > > Client {
> > > Name = client-fd
> > > Address = server.com
> > > FDPort = 9102
> > > Catalog = MyCatalog
> > > Password = "***"
> > > File Retention = 21 days
> > > Job Retention = 21 days
> > > AutoPrune = yes
> > > }
> > >
> > > Job {
> > > Name = "Backup Server"
> > > Type = Backup
> > > Client = server-fd
> > > FileSet = "Full Set"
> > > Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
> > > Storage = Storage
> > > Messages = Standard
> > > Pool = Default
> > > Write Bootstrap = "/usr/local/bacula/var/bacula/working/server.bsr"
> > > }
> > >
> > > Storage {
> > > Name = Storage
> > > Address = storage.server.com
> > > SDPort = 9103
> > > Password = "***"
> > > Device = StorageServer
> > > Media Type = File
> > > }
> > >
> > > >From bacula-sd.conf
> > >
> > > Device {
> > > Name = StorageServer
> > > Media Type = File
> > > Archive Device = /home/bacula-data/
> > > LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled
> > > media
> > > Random Access = Yes;
> > > AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> > > RemovableMedia = no;
> > > AlwaysOpen = no;
> > > }
> > >
> >
> > I think I see why this is happening.
> >
> > Do the following
> > list media pool=Default
> >
> > and see if Recycle=1 is set in any of the volumes.
> >
> > if so
> >
> > update
> >
> > and then select "Pool from resource"
> >
> > and follow the prompts.
> >
> > John
>
>
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