Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-18 Thread Jeff MacDonald
This was exactly my issue. I had “Recycle oldest volume” on. Which meant it was looking to see if there was anything to recycle but since my job/file retentions are so high there was no chance it would ever find anything and so it keeps chugging and chugging trying to fid it. Learned a lot in t

Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-15 Thread Heitor Faria
> Oh.. I should make an effort to be clear. I am _not_ using that feature. >>> >> Sorry Jeff. My mistake. So, like I said before, you just need to create more volumes for backup or reduce your Volume Retention. Don't forget to update the already created volumes if you reduce the retention. -- ==

Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-15 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: >> >> I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File >> retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days. >> >> 100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old. >> >> Right now bacula is attemp

Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-14 Thread Heitor Faria
> > >> I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File >> retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days. >> >> 100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old. >> >> Right now bacula is attempting to prune the oldest volume. As I >> understand thing

Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-14 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hi Jeff, Bacula will not use any volume before retention perdidos. Unless you specify in your pool configuration "purge oldest volume". This directive does not respect the retention perdiods and will find the oldest used volume to recycle. It is recommended the use of "recycle oldest volume" inste

Re: [Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-14 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Hi, > > Hi Jeff! > > I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File > retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days. > > 100 files have

[Bacula-users] pruning oldest volume when its impossible

2014-08-14 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days. 100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old. Right now bacula is attempting to prune the oldest volume. As I understand things.. this will n