Dear Uwe,
This in fact did work. I had to remove the volumes I no longer
wanted to retain, that were over the Max Volumes I set for the pool,
then the Max Volumes finally updated after stopping, restarting Bacula
Thanks much,
Shon
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp
<uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:18:37PM -0400, Mingus Dew wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I am running bacula-5.2.10 on Solaris 10 x86. I've noticed an
>> issue recently where I've wanted to restrict further restrict the
>> Maximum Volumes in a couple of Pools.
>> I edited the config and changed "Maximum Volumes = 3". I then reloaded
>> and updated the Pools from Resource. It says it successfully updates.
>> I've also tried restarting bacula-dir and then updating the Pools from
>> Resource. Here is my config, names changed to protect the innocent.
>>
>
> Hi Mingus,
>
> check the list archives, I recently also started a discussion on this
> subject. For now, I've found the only way to shrink a pool is to
>
> - change & reload your bacula config
>
> - delete extra volumes (hopefully the oldest ones) manually from the
> pool in bconsole using the "delete volume" command
>
> - run "update pool" in bconsole for the affected pool
>
> Only then will the pool attributes actually update and reflect the
> changed number of max. volumes.
>
> Naturally all of this can be scripted and I hope I will eventually get
> around to it (I recently changed the incr pool max volumes vor ~120
> clients and don't feel like repeating all of the above steps for each
> client manually ;)
>
> I've asked around if this is a bacula bug, but apparently this is
> considered a feature ;-)
>
> All the best, Uwe
>
>
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