I changed the Volume retention to 7 days, repeated all of the commands,
and ran a BackupCatalog job; still reports "The job needs media"
On 11/23/22 13:39, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
On 11/23/22 12:27, Nick Bright wrote:
In the Pool definition there is a Volume Retention of 365 days
If your volumes were allowed to fill the disk to 100%, that might be part
of your problem. Your (max volumes * volume size) should leave some buffer
space on the disk allocated to Bacula. If your working directory is on the
same disk, you need to be even more generous with that buffer (I often use
On 2022-11-23 20:02, Nick Bright wrote:
Thank you for the replies.
The physical disk has about 2% free space (446GB) so it shouldn't be
locked preventing any maintenance from occurring due to insufficient
storage.
Hi Nick
If your file system is configured to reserve some percentage of blocks
On 11/23/22 12:27, Nick Bright wrote:
In the Pool definition there is a Volume Retention of 365 days; however
each client has it's own File Retention and Job Retention (7 days each)
Shouldn't this result in the data contained within the volumes being
expired, and thus the volume could be recycle
In the Pool definition there is a Volume Retention of 365 days; however
each client has it's own File Retention and Job Retention (7 days each)
Shouldn't this result in the data contained within the volumes being
expired, and thus the volume could be recycled/purged/truncated once
its' contain
Hello Nick,
For the pool you showed us, the VolRetention is `31,536,000` seconds.
This is not 7 days, but 1 year.
You may need to restart your Director, then perform the steps in my previous
email again to see the results you are looking for.
For VolRetention, you should see `604800` which is
Thank you for the replies.
The physical disk has about 2% free space (446GB) so it shouldn't be
locked preventing any maintenance from occurring due to insufficient
storage.
I issued the "update pool" command, which output
++--+-+-+-++-
On 11/23/22 10:19, Nick Bright wrote:
>
Speculating this has to do with retention, I turned my retention for
both Jobs and Files down to 7 days, but still 'nothing to truncate' is
the output.
Yes...
After reloading the Director's config and doing "update pool=" for the
pool(s) you have up
Hi Nick
Please execute update pool from resource command in bconsole so Bacula can
reflect the retention perio change in the existing volumes. Only after you
can execute the truncate command.
Best
Pedro
Nick Bright escreveu em qua., 23/11/2022 às 17:49 :
> Greetings,
>
> I'm new to Bacula, an
Greetings,
I'm new to Bacula, and haven't used tape based backups before (though
I've used BackupPC for many years.) I'm running Bacula 11.0.6 on Debian 11.
Currently I'm backing up about 30 servers to Bacula, and this seems to
be working well; however I've filled up my 17TB of disk, and back
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