On 12/9/21 14:40, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> >> "MaximumVolume = 0" means unlimited, so as I said Bacula will just >> continue to create more volumes. >> >> > That's not my experience it recycles/reuses all the other volumes.
Hi Larry, OK, that is interesting, my experience has been different. Is it possible that you have changed something regarding AutoPrune, or Pool settings in your environment recently? I see the main manual's Recycling Algorithm section tells you the opposite of what I told you, but there is a note at the end describing what I had said. It is from Alan Brown, long time, and well-respected member of the Bacula community: ----8<---- If a pool doesn’t have maximum volumes defined then Bacula will prefer to demand new volumes over forcibly purging older volumes. ----8<---- What is the exact behavior you are seeing? Just lots of purged volumes that you listed? Then what is happening? Is Bacula creating new volumes instead of recycling and then reusing these purged volumes? If Bacula is creating new volumes in your environment (as I suspect), try setting the MaximumVolumes = 787 (or less) in your "Default" Pool, then in bconsole, "reload" the Director and then "update pool=Default" to force any changes to the pool to be updated. (some pool changes require this additional step) Then, when you then run some new jobs, Bacula will finish using any volumes set to append until they reach the MaximumVolumeBytes set in the Default pool, and then Bacula should not create any new volumes and begin to use the ones you listed with VolStatus=Purged Another thought I had: What if, in fact, Bacula is not creating new volumes (your logs will show), and is re-using volumes as you want/expect, then what if your Retention periods are low enough that Bacula is pruning, recycling, and re-using volumes and it is just never needing more media so these Purged volumes you have identified are just left in limbo? Yes, I know, this goes against the recycling algorithm described in the main manual, but it is a complex process and I have seen stranger things when it comes to pruning and recycling. :) Hope this helps. Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
