On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net> wrote: > >> >> Once purged, you can either let Bacula recycle them itself, >> or you can >> use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume >> status to >> Recycle. This is a particularly straightforward >> operation if you are >> using BAT, since you can do it on all the volumes at once. >> > > OK, my next backup ran and it used the next volume. Success! > However.. it "appended". Here's what my volumes look like now: > > *list volumes > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > Pool: Default > No results to list. > Pool: File > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | > VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | 25 | disk_0001 | Purged | 1 | 37,353,382 | 0 | > 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:10:03 | > | 26 | disk_0002 | Purged | 1 | 5,125,873,046 | 1 | > 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-13 23:10:02 | > | 27 | disk_0003 | Append | 1 | 7,009,019,184 | 1 | > 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-14 23:21:34 | > | 28 | disk_0004 | Purged | 1 | 51,194,220 | 0 | > 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-07 23:21:59 | > | 29 | disk_0005 | Purged | 1 | 10,436 | 0 | > 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:05:03 | > | 30 | disk_0006 | Purged | 1 | 561 | 0 | > 777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:07:14 | > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > Pool: Scratch > No results to list. > * > > Whatever was on disk_0003 was left in place, and the new backup data appended > to that volume. Is there a way to make it wipe the volume clean before > writing? >
It should have done that. Are you sure you did not backup 7G of data? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
