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Hello,
Please create a ticket for this in the bugs database as it
appears to me to be a bug.
Best regards,
Kern
On 01/27/2014 12:15 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> unfortunately volume recycling doesn't work like I expected it.
>
> I have a pool with 2 volumes (tapes), which I use for duplicating (hdd)
> backups every weekend.
> So if one tape is in the drive and the house is on fire, I have the tape
> from the weekend before.
> I have a ?Use Duration? of 3 days and a ?Volume Retention? of 9 days, so
> after 12 days, the volume will get purged and recycled ? theoretically.
> I haven't managed to get the automatic recyling to work yet, it's a new
> setup and I did the retention periods wrong on the first shot, so I
> manually purged the volume and set to recycle.
> The problem is:
> Recycled volumes keep their First-Written-Timestamp, so it will be
> always marked ?Used?, since ?Use Duration? was intentionally lapsed for
> the first volume usage. But when recycling a volume, there should begin
> a new ?Use Duration? period!!!
> Also, in my opinion, the label of the volume should be recreated when
> recyled, not copied (see excerpt below for obvious auto-label reason).
> But what I don't understand at all is why the timestamps are not reset
> at volume recycling. That can't be intenionally, is it?!??!!?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Harry
>
> Config excerpt from the affected pool resource:
>
> Pool {
> Name = LTO4-weekly-Dups
> # Description:
> # Pool for copies of differential-backups from harddisk store (for
> # disaster-recovery).
> Maximum Volumes = 2
> Pool Type = Backup
> Storage = Tandberg-LTO4
> Volume Use Duration = 3 days
> Volume Retention = 9 days # keep 9 days after last write
> Recycle Current Volume = yes # prune currently mounted tape
> LabelFormat =
"weekly-rotation-${NumVols:p/2/0/r}_${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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