Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 16 December 2005 11:55, Chris Boyd wrote: > Sorry a bit of a newbie to bacula. There is no need to be sorry. I wasn't criticizing you only trying to help you get organized to understand Bacula. You (and a number of other users) are in a sort of grey area where you want Bacula to do th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Boyd
Sorry a bit of a newbie to bacula. I purged the Thursday volume and then set it to status recycle. What's confusing me is why it accepted the Thursday volume for one job and then changed it's status to "Used" and then asked for the 3_monday fo r the last two jobs. It's almost acting like the tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
If I am not mistaken, the exact rules that Bacula uses for recycling and for selecting the next tape (two different alorithms) are written in the manual. If you have those in front of you, it makes it a lot easier to understand what how Bacula chooses the next tape. One of Bacula's methods of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Boyd
I only have one pool "Default". Its actually asking for another volume in the same pool...I'm just not sure why it's doing that after running the first job. Here's the pool: Pool: Default +-+--+---+-+--+--+-+--+

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-16 Thread Florian Schnabel
i need mroe info to help you on that one .. your pool and media setup would help a lot right now it sounds like it wanted a volume from another pool ... Florian Chris Boyd wrote: I've changed the retention duration to one month and it accepted the volume. However after backing up one server (

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Boyd
I've changed the retention duration to one month and it accepted the volume. However after backing up one server (of 3) it gives this message. 15-Dec 22:00 hq-dir: Start Backup JobId 366, Job=s01-full-backup.2005-12-15_22.00.00 15-Dec 22:00 hq-sd: Recycled volume "thursday" on device "/dev/nst0

[Bacula-users] Bacula will not recycle volume

2005-12-15 Thread Chris Boyd
Using bacula 1.36.3 I'm trying to recycle a volume (thursday). I set the recycle flag to yes and I've purged the volume. Then I changed the status to Append. However whenever the backup job runs it will not accept volume and asks for another one(3_monday, which i've set the status to Full). "1