Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-27 Thread Sven Tegethoff
> Not in my experience. AFAICT, all my Bacula installations have always > checked the use duration of all volumes, and updated the status of > those volumes who had exceeded it to "Used", at the beginning of every > job, and on assorted other occasions as well. My guess would be that > you reduced

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.07.2012 16:57, schrieb Sven Tegethoff: > On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Have you tried setting volume use duration to 24 hours? > > Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used > status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/26/12 02:35, Sven Tegethoff wrote: > On 25.07.2012 17:50, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> i think we need to understand more about the use cycle for these >> volumes. Are these weekly tapes written to once per week with a single >> job or set of jobs, or are they continuously appended to over the >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread Sven Tegethoff
On 25.07.2012 17:22, John Drescher wrote: >> Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used >> status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular >> volume, and not at the moment when bacula decides whether to overwrite >> or to append to the volume. >> >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread Sven Tegethoff
On 25.07.2012 17:50, Phil Stracchino wrote: i think we need to understand more about the use cycle for these volumes. Are these weekly tapes written to once per week with a single job or set of jobs, or are they continuously appended to over the course of a week? Let's just take a look at th

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/25/12 10:57, Sven Tegethoff wrote: > On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Now my problem is that bacula always leaves the last tape in >> "appendable" state, and when the tape gets inserted for its next write >> cycle, it will not overwrite this tape, but only append to it - even >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread John Drescher
> Yes, I did. My problem is, The "use duration" is checked and the "Used > status" is set only at the end of a job that writes to the particular > volume, and not at the moment when bacula decides whether to overwrite > or to append to the volume. > Confused. These parameters are set in a text fil

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread Sven Tegethoff
On 25.07.2012 16:39, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Now my problem is that bacula always leaves the last tape in > "appendable" state, and when the tape gets inserted for its next write > cycle, it will not overwrite this tape, but only append to it - even > though the retention period of the tape has ex

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/25/12 09:55, Sven Tegethoff wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've tried to wrap my head around automatic volume recycling, but it > seems that my backup strategy isn't quite compatible with Bacula's > volume recycling policy, and maybe there's someone out here who knows a > solution :) > > I'm

[Bacula-users] Automatic Tape Recycling

2012-07-25 Thread Sven Tegethoff
Hi everybody, I've tried to wrap my head around automatic volume recycling, but it seems that my backup strategy isn't quite compatible with Bacula's volume recycling policy, and maybe there's someone out here who knows a solution :) I'm backing up multiple systems with multiple tape drives. F