Hi there, I'm running bacula-dir in two locations, each backing up about 100 servers onto disk arrays, I'm not using tape. One location had a bit of calamity a while back and I was forced to restart all backups from scratch, that location is doing fine. In the other location, backups repeatedly fail asking me to label a new volume. Some jobs keep going fine but there are some jobs for particular servers that fail more often than not. I tried creating new jobs for some of these problem server but they came back with the same issues. I asked about this previously and someone pointed out that I was using a separate pool for each backup job and this was not good practice. I didn't want to leap in and re-do every backup so I took a small group of problematic servers and put them into a communal pool. For a couple of weeks this went swimmingly but this weekend the full backups were scheduled and now all the servers in the communal pool have failed requesting a new volume. I created a new volume for one but the others are still complaining. I can go and re-label all these but I'd like to stop this error happening.
Here's the template we use ## Your_Server_Name Schedule { Name = "Your_Server_NameMonthlyCycle" Run = Level=Full on 1 at {{ti:me}} Run = Level=Incremental on 2-31 at {{ti:me}} } Schedule { Name = "Your_Server_NameVerifyCycle" Run = Level=DiskToCatalog sat at {{ti:me}} } Job { Name = "Backup Your_Server_Name" Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = Your_Server_Name-fd FileSet = "Your_Server_Name Full Set" Messages = Standard Storage = Your_Server_NameFile Pool = Your_Server_Name Schedule = Your_Server_NameMonthlyCycle Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Your_Server_Name.bsr" Priority = 10 } Job { Name = "Restore Your_Server_Name" Type = Restore Client = Your_Server_Name-fd FileSet = "Your_Server_Name Full Set" Storage = Your_Server_NameFile Messages = Standard Pool = Your_Server_Name Where = /tmp/bacula-restores/Your_Server_Name Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Your_Server_Name.bsr" } Job { Name = "Verify Your_Server_Name" Type = Verify Verify Job = "Backup Your_Server_Name" Level = DiskToCatalog Client = Your_Server_Name-fd FileSet = "Your_Server_Name Verify Set" Messages = Standard Storage = Your_Server_NameFile Pool = Your_Server_Name Priority = 10 Schedule = "Your_Server_NameVerifyCycle" } FileSet { Name = "Your_Server_Name Full Set" Include { Options { compression = GZIP signature = MD5 ## This is where you define what you want backed up } ################################################################################################ ##Please uncomment the directories you wish to backup or add custom ones. Dont't forget Verify## ################################################################################################ File = /etc } } FileSet { Name = "Your_Server_Name Verify Set" Include { Options { verify = pins5 signature = MD5 ## This is where you define what you want checked on the file verifys } File = /etc } } ## Define where the information sent by the fd should go Storage { Name = Your_Server_NameFile Address = {{backup server IP}} Password = st0rag3 Device = Your_Server_NameFileStorage Media Type = File } ## This is where you define the IP you wish to connect to (fd), ## the client name must match the fd name given on the server in the bacula-fd.conf Client { Name = Your_Server_Name-fd Address = {{ip_address_here}} Password = {{password}} Catalog = MySQL AutoPrune = yes } Pool { Name = Your_Server_Name Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 65 days Maximum Volumes = 65 UseVolumeOnce = yes LabelFormat = "Your_Server_Name-day-" } Now I'm trying to wrap my head around this pool business, see this bit Pool { Name = Your_Server_Name Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 65 days Maximum Volumes = 65 UseVolumeOnce = yes LabelFormat = "Your_Server_Name-day-" } If I put 100 servers into a single pool, will I need to change maximum volumes to 6500? or should I just take that out entirely? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by tibus.supp...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
