Hi Mingus,
When using disk volumes with automatic volume labeling, you have to tell
bacula when to stop labeling new volumes... You can do it limiting the
number of volumes in the pool. Also, you can try Recycle Oldest Volume =
yes. Pasted from
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Basic_Volume_Management.html:
"The Maximum Volumes record can also be used in conjunction with the Volume
Retention period to limit the total number of archive Volumes (files) that
Bacula will create. By setting an appropriate Volume Retention period, a
Volume will be purged just before it is needed and thus Bacula can cycle
through a fixed set of Volumes. Cycling through a fixed set of Volumes can
also be done by setting *Recycle Oldest Volume = yes* or *Recycle Current
Volume = yes*. In this case, when Bacula needs a new Volume, it will prune
the specified volume."
Regards,
Ana
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mingus Dew <shon.steph...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear All,
> I am running Bacula Community Edition 5.2.13 on Solaris 10 x86. I am
> trying to understand why Bacula doesn't seem to recycle when I think it
> should.
> I have recently moved to a configuration where each Volume contains
> only a single Job. I had envisioned that when the Volume Retention period
> was reached, the Volume would be set to Recycle and reused. Instead what
> I'm finding is that Bacula is taking much longer to Recycle Volumes than I
> think it should and is instead creating more new Volumes.
>
> This is a relevant Pool Config
>
> Pool {
> Name = Archimedes-FS_Full
> Pool Type = Backup
> Storage = Archimedes_Full_Files
> Recycle = Yes
> AutoPrune = Yes
> Volume Retention = 14d
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> Label Format = Archimedes-FS_Full-
> Next Pool = Archimedes_LTO5_Tapes
> }
>
> This is a standard Job Config using Volumes in that Pool
>
> Job {
> Name = "ar-web1_Daily_Disk"
> Type = Backup
> Client = ar-web1.archimedes
> FileSet = "Archimedes_Solaris_FileSystems"
> Schedule = "Incr_0300_Wed_Full"
> Pool = Archimedes-FS_Incr
> JobDefs = "DiskDefs"
> Full Backup Pool = Archimedes-FS_Full
> Incremental Backup Pool = Archimedes-FS_Incr
> Messages = Standard
> Write Bootstrap = "/mnt/backup1/archimedes/bacula/bootstrap/%n.bsr"
> }
>
> This is the Client definition
>
> Client {
> Name = ar-web1.archimedes
> Address = 10.0.6.101
> FDPort = 9102
> Catalog = Mentora_Catalog
> Password = "m7pJY91cdgeYjknTffyj3/vBd+vpRzh6briOhZV5yWWN"
> AutoPrune = yes
> }
>
>
> As you can see, the only place where I define retention period is in the
> Pool. Nothing should be overriding this. Yet, here are the Volumes. I can
> see that the period between LastWritten is 7 days, coinciding with my Full
> Backup Schedule, however Bacula should not be retaining 4 weeks of these
> files, only 2 (14d)
>
> 108 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0108 | Recycle | 1 | 1
> | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-06 03:07:21 |
> | 128 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0128 | Used | 1 | 33,862,178,634
> | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-06 06:53:05 |
> | 129 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0129 | Used | 1 | 39,038,099,750
> | 9 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-06 10:01:46 |
> | 130 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0130 | Used | 1 | 5,130,340,345
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-06 10:04:51 |
> | 131 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0131 | Used | 1 | 4,744,597,690
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-06 10:07:48 |
> | 132 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0132 | Used | 1 | 5,376,150,353
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-12 03:09:06 |
> | 133 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0133 | Used | 1 | 4,790,685,951
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-12 03:11:47 |
> | 134 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0134 | Used | 1 | 2,878,371,042
> | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-12 03:16:04 |
> | 135 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0135 | Used | 1 | 33,834,286,944
> | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-12 07:03:00 |
> | 136 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0136 | Used | 1 | 39,201,368,421
> | 9 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-12 10:10:53 |
> | 137 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0137 | Used | 1 | 4,820,516,075
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-19 03:06:47 |
> | 138 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0138 | Used | 1 | 40,170,205,038
> | 9 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-19 06:22:59 |
> | 139 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0139 | Used | 1 | 5,126,884,169
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-19 06:25:25 |
> | 140 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0140 | Used | 1 | 33,890,965,413
> | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-19 10:13:47 |
> | 141 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0141 | Used | 1 | 2,920,752,161
> | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-06-19 10:17:54 |
> | 142 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0142 | Used | 1 | 5,567,216,031
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-03 03:14:42 |
> | 143 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0143 | Used | 1 | 33,858,531,390
> | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-03 07:02:09 |
> | 144 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0144 | Used | 1 | 31,142,987,941
> | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-03 10:11:46 |
> | 145 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0145 | Used | 1 | 3,086,752,333
> | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-03 10:15:13 |
> | 146 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0146 | Used | 1 | 4,907,978,588
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-03 10:16:50 |
> | 149 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0149 | Used | 1 | 36,551,294,734
> | 8 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-10 06:52:31 |
> | 163 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0163 | Used | 1 | 33,899,466,368
> | 7 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-10 10:40:22 |
> | 181 | Archimedes-FS_Full-0181 | Used | 1 | 3,216,852,372
> | 0 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-10 10:44:19 |
> | 1,035 | Archimedes-FS_Full-1035 | Used | 1 | 4,963,655,982
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-10 10:46:16 |
> | 1,036 | Archimedes-FS_Full-1036 | Used | 1 | 5,952,418,020
> | 1 | 1,209,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Archimedes_File |
> 2013-07-10 10:49:56 |
> | 1,043 | Archimedes-FS_Full
>
> Can anyone explain what is going on?
>
> Thank you,
> Shon
>
>
>
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