Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-05 Thread Alan Brown
I'm not on the devel list. In terms of "next tapes", what is bacula's order of preference for using tapes? Append, then recycle, then purged? If so, then that part's easy (It's what I'm doing by hand anwyay) If there aren't enough tapes, you're right, some form of "show pruning candidates"

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 04 August 2005 13:12, Alan Brown wrote: > I'm not on the devel list. > > In terms of "next tapes", what is bacula's order of preference for using > tapes? It is complicated enough that I do not remember it. However, it is documented in the manual, though it may be slightly out of dat

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 12:30, Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Lutz wrote: > > I think for most sites it's a major issue to know in advance what tapes > > bacula wants to use next in a particular pool. > > AMEN! This is also something I would like to see. Sooo, an RFC sent to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-03 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Georg Lutz wrote: 1. We life in a part of Germany where there are (fourtunately ? ;-)) a lot of holidays. We moved our main backup and tape change days to mid-week to deal with this problem AB --- SF.Net email i

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-03 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Lutz wrote: I think for most sites it's a major issue to know in advance what tapes bacula wants to use next in a particular pool. AMEN! I've been trying to build my pools out so there are always enough purged tapes to just fill the magazines, but it's time consumin

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-02 Thread Georg Lutz
On 2005-08-01, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > > To "enforce" the policy I set Maximum Volume Job to 2 (Backup plus > > catalog) and Accept Any Volume to no. > > Hm. I don't see how having "Accept Any Volume" disabled would do > anything to enforce that policy that could not be better enforced by >

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
Georg Lutz wrote: > On 2005-07-26, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> >>Well, I suppose that so long as you don't have a limited volume use >>count or volume use window, then provided you have Use Any Volume >>enabled and you know about how much data you're expecting to back up, >>the output of List Volu

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-01 Thread Georg Lutz
On 2005-07-26, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > Well, I suppose that so long as you don't have a limited volume use > count or volume use window, then provided you have Use Any Volume > enabled and you know about how much data you're expecting to back up, > the output of List Volumes should be able t

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-01 Thread Georg Lutz
On 2005-07-26, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Roland Arendes wrote: > > >The 'status dir' output is a good guess anyway, if I remember correctly. > > It only shows the guess for the next tape. > Yes, and you can use it only when you schedule the job. In our case the internal schedule

RE: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-07-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Roland Arendes wrote: The 'status dir' output is a good guess anyway, if I remember correctly. It only shows the guess for the next tape. A lot of us need to know the next 5, 10, whatever tapes to insert in a magazine.

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-07-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
Roland Arendes wrote: > The 'status dir' output is a good guess anyway, if I remember correctly. > > Nevertheless, I would be interested in this information, too. > > Right now I need this for one machine, but it is not as critical as your > situation. We insert the tape on the next day then, an

RE: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-07-26 Thread Roland Arendes
The 'status dir' output is a good guess anyway, if I remember correctly. Nevertheless, I would be interested in this information, too. Right now I need this for one machine, but it is not as critical as your situation. We insert the tape on the next day then, and the backup runs during the day.