"Thomas Schweikle" <t...@vr-web.de> kirjoitti viestissä news:hk7eo5$o5...@ger.gmane.org... >On 01.02.2010 20:14, Timo Neuvonen wrote: >> "Thomas Schweikle" <t...@vr-web.de> kirjoitti viestissä >> news:hk76l8$o2...@ger.gmane.org... >>> Hi! >>> >>> I am trying to set up bacula to aoutmaticly creating and labeling a >>> volume for backup. AFAIK I did everything to make it happen, but it >>> does not work as expected ... > >[...] > >> Volumes won't get deleted automatically. If you don't want to recycle >> existing volumes, you have to delete old ones manually, or make a script >> to >> do it. Deleting might require both deleting from the catalog (since you >> have >> a limit of 'maximum volumes' which would prevent creating new ones) and >> also >> deleting the actual files. I think there were some discussion about that >> kind of script recently (in January?) in this list. > >Does this mean volumes aren't created automatic? I do have to create >them manually?
At first, I didn't notice there was a recycle=yes option in the conf. The volumes can be (if configured so) created automatically, until the configured limit for maximum number of volumes is reached. Limiting the number (and the size) of the volumes as you did is a good idea on file storage, because otherwise you would run out of disk space sooner or later. But the automatic creation will stop when the maximum number is reached. Now you have specified recycle=yes, which means the existing volumes will then be used again starting from the oldest expired one - so the old ones will not be deleted but re-used. What this means, is that your volume names that include (old) timestamps will become very misleading since they'll contain data that is newer than the volume name could make one think. But no technical problem there so far. So, is the problem now that - not a single volume gets created (there aren't 20 volumes yet) -- if so, then there is a bug in the conf I didn't notice or - no new volume names appear after there already exists 20 volumes? -- if so, this is propably due to possible misunderstanding I tried to explain above btw, maybe you are aware of this, but any changes to pool definition need to "be taken into use" with update pool command in bconsole. -- TiN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
