Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:23:10 +0200, Ward Poelmans said: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 16:14, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:39:48 -0400, John Drescher said: > >> > >> > Well, from the docs: "The Volume Retention record defines the length > >> > of time that Bacula will gua

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 16:14, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:39:48 -0400, John Drescher said: >> >> > Well, from the docs: "The Volume Retention record defines the length >> > of time that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused >> > counting from the time the last

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:39:48 -0400, John Drescher said: > > > Well, from the docs: "The Volume Retention record defines the length > > of time that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused > > counting from the time the last job stored on the Volume terminated." > > That is correc

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
> Well, from the docs: "The Volume Retention record defines the length > of time that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused > counting from the time the last job stored on the Volume terminated." That is correct. > It also doesn't make sense to recycle as soon as the job no longer >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 15:17, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ward Poelmans wrote: >> volume is thus marked as 'used'. From the docs, I though this meant >> that the volumes are kept for a period of 1 year before being pruned >> and reused. However, now 6 months have passe

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to bacula: i've worked with it for 6 months now. But > now, there is happening something which I do not understand: Automatic > Volume Recycling. I've got a client with a job retention of 6 months > with autoprune on. It

[Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread Ward Poelmans
Hi, I'm rather new to bacula: i've worked with it for 6 months now. But now, there is happening something which I do not understand: Automatic Volume Recycling. I've got a client with a job retention of 6 months with autoprune on. It writes to a pool (File storage) with a volume retention of 1 yea

[Bacula-users] automatic volume recycling in Bacula 2.4.4

2012-02-08 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hello, >From what I've read in the archives, this is a tricky subject. I've regularly had issues with this in the past, and have stumbled upon a few threads that deal with it. That, coupled with some unholy kludges (such as disabling the /Enabled/ field for volumes I wanted left alone) has gotten

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2009-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:28 PM, ganiuszka wrote: > > > John M. Drescher wrote: >> >> Volume retention does not start until a volume is marked Full or Used. >> Then the time of last written is used to compute the retention period. >> > I agree. > So I have one more question. In which volume states

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2009-04-28 Thread ganiuszka
John M. Drescher wrote: > > Volume retention does not start until a volume is marked Full or Used. > Then the time of last written is used to compute the retention period. > I agree. So I have one more question. In which volume states (VolStatus) a volume can be prune in the automatic volume re

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2009-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:21 AM, ganiuszka wrote: > > Hi! > > I have some question about automatic volume recycling described in Bacula > documentation (Chapter 10). > > I can't understand why a volume with VolStatus=Append may be pruned (and > later recycled) because I seems that the Volume Reten

[Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2009-04-28 Thread ganiuszka
Hi! I have some question about automatic volume recycling described in Bacula documentation (Chapter 10). I can't understand why a volume with VolStatus=Append may be pruned (and later recycled) because I seems that the Volume Retention period don't begin count down when the VolStatus is "Append

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic volume recycling fails

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Sturm
Am Freitag April 14 2006 09:26 schrieb Kern Sibbald: > Please permit me to complain a bit: you would get far better answers if you > always include the essentials of your setup. Please see the support page of > www.bacula.org, but at a minimum the Bacula version is critcal. I'm sorry that I forgot

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic volume recycling fails

2006-04-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please permit me to complain a bit: you would get far better answers if you always include the essentials of your setup. Please see the support page of www.bacula.org, but at a minimum the Bacula version is critcal. On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:07, Thomas Sturm wrote: > The recycling of used vol

[Bacula-users] Automatic volume recycling fails

2006-04-13 Thread Thomas Sturm
The recycling of used volumes fails. The retention is set to 2 days, but when the job starts (after 6 days without using the tape), I get the following information: Current Volume "Do_2-s8" not acceptable because: 1000 OK VolName=Do_2-s8 VolJobs=11 VolFiles=29 VolBlocks=358018 VolByte

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic volume recycling fails

2006-04-13 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My suspicion here is that your job retention is much longer than 2 days. As such the tape will not roll over. According to the manual, that is not the way things work and the shortest retention period is used. However, I have found reality in this ins

[Bacula-users] Automatic volume recycling fails

2006-04-13 Thread Thomas Sturm
The recycling of used volumes fails. The retention is set to 2 days, but when the job starts (after 6 days without using the tape), I get the following information: Current Volume "Do_2-s8" not acceptable because: 1000 OK VolName=Do_2-s8 VolJobs=11 VolFiles=29 VolBlocks=358018 VolByte