On 10/21/2010 12:10 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:51:51 -0300, Kleber Leal said: >> >> 2010/10/21 Martin Simmons<mar...@lispworks.com> >> >>>>>>>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:34:42 -0400, Dan Langille said: >>>> >>>> I'm getting recycling before retention expires. Or so I think. It may be >>>> possible that the Pools definitions are out of date, but before I run an >>>> update command, I wanted to see if anyone saw something out of order here. >>>> >>>> This is the Volume before it was recycled: >>>> >>>> Pool: FullsFile >>>> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | >>> volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | >>> lastwritten | >>>> | 445 | FileAuto-0445 | Full | 1 | 5,368,691,646 | >>> 1 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-16 >>> 08:24:59 | >>>> >>>> That is 3 years retention. Last written April this year >>>> >>>> The Volume is then recycled during the job: >>>> >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 kraken-sd JobId 39232: User defined maximum volume capacity >>> 5,368,709,120 exceeded on device "MegaFile" >>> (/storage/compressed/bacula/volumes). >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 kraken-sd JobId 39232: End of medium on Volume >>> "FileAuto-0437" Bytes=5,368,688,857 Blocks=83,220 at 20-Oct-2010 15:18. >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 bacula-dir JobId 39232: There are no more Jobs associated >>> with Volume "FileAuto-0445". Marking it purged. >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 bacula-dir JobId 39232: All records pruned from Volume >>> "FileAuto-0445"; marking it "Purged" >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 bacula-dir JobId 39232: Recycled volume "FileAuto-0445" >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 kraken-sd JobId 39232: Recycled volume "FileAuto-0445" on >>> device "MegaFile" (/storage/compressed/bacula/volumes), all previous data >>> lost. >>>> 20-Oct 20:18 kraken-sd JobId 39232: New volume "FileAuto-0445" mounted on >>> device "MegaFile" (/storage/compressed/bacula/volumes) at 20-Oct-2010 15:18. >>> >>> I think you might be confused about the meaning of the Volume Retention >>> directive. It controls automatic pruning, but it doesn't prevent recycling >>> if >>> the volume has no jobs remaining in the catalog. The latter can happen if >>> the >>> Job Retention directive in the Client(s) caused pruning prior to this >>> backup. >> >> He is not confused. I think. >> The bacula should not to recycle a volume, even if there is not appendable >> volumes*. >> *The manual says: *"**The Volume Retention record defines the length of time >> that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused** counting from the >> time the last job stored on the Volume terminated". *Not mention to jobs on >> catalog. >> >> The files and job retention period comes to prevent catalog growing, not to >> recycle volumes, says the manual. >> >> *The Volume Retention record defines the length of time that Bacula will >> guarantee that the Volume is not reused counting from the time the last job >> stored on the Volume terminated. > > It seems that the manual contradicts itself about this directive, because > http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0018150000000000000000 > in the same manual defines the Volume Retention directive as: > > "The Volume Retention directive defines the length of time that Bacula will > keep records associated with the Volume in the Catalog database after the End > time of each Job written to the Volume." > > I.e. it controls pruning, not recycling.
Which in turn affects recycling. > If a Full or Used volume has no jobs in the catalog, then it can be marked as > Purged and can be recycled. AFAICS, the code has worked like that for a long > time and the message > > "There are no more Jobs associated with Volume .... Marking it purged." > > is printed when it detects that, regardless of the Volume Retention period. I suggest that jobs are being pruned before they should be pruned. Perhaps I've misunderstood it all these years. If the retention period is 1 year (default), why are jobs being pruned before before that? The last written value is April. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
