Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not auto pruning expired volumes

[Helmut R. <mai...@ra...>]

Hi,

have you changed anything on the pool resource since you have first used 
"full_admt-0006"?
The volume retention is saved on a per volume basis in the database. If 
you update the pool resource in the conf file the changes are not 
updated on existing volumes.
check the volume retention with
list volumes

Regards

Helmut

Patrick Van der Veken schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Running bacula 1.38.5 on SLES 9 we have following problem when running a
> backup  last night:
> 
> 10-Mar 23:00 admt-sd: full_backup.2006-03-10_23.00.00 Warning: Director
> wanted Volume "full_admt-0017".
>     Current Volume "full_admt_0006" not acceptable because:
>     1998 Volume "full_admt_0006" status is Used, but should be Append,
> Purged or Recycle (cannot automatically recycle current volume, as it
> still contains unpruned data).
> 10-Mar 23:00 admt-sd: Please mount Volume "full_admt-0017" on Storage
> Device "DDS-5" (/dev/nst0) for Job full_backup.2006-03-10_23.00.00
> 
> The volume full_admt_0006 was last written on 22-Feb and has a retention
> time of 10 days. By 10-Mar it was thus well and truly expired. We are
> using following DIR settings for the media pool:
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = full
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Maximum Volumes = 50
>   Maximum Volume Jobs = 0               # unlimited
>   Maximum Volume Files = 0              # unlimited
>   Maximum Volume Bytes = 0              # unlimited
>   Catalog Files = yes                   # catalog in database
>   Recycle = yes                         # automatically recycle Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes                       # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 10d
>   Volume Use Duration = 12h
>   Accept Any Volume = yes               # write on any volume in the pool
>   Recycle Current Volume = yes
>   LabelFormat = "full_admt-"
> }
> 
> *llist pools
> Using default Catalog name=default DB=bacula
>           PoolId: 1
>             Name: full
>          NumVols: 19
>          MaxVols: 50
>          UseOnce: 0
>       UseCatalog: 1
>  AcceptAnyVolume: 1
>     VolRetention: 864,000
>   VolUseDuration: 43,200
>       MaxVolJobs: 0
>      MaxVolBytes: 0
>        AutoPrune: 1
>          Recycle: 1
>         PoolType: Backup
>      LabelFormat: full_admt-
>          Enabled: 1
>    ScratchPoolId: 0
>    RecyclePoolId: 0
>        LabelType: 0
> 
> After receiving a mount request I executed a manual "prune" command on the
> volume which correctly expired all jobs of the volume. The backup then
> continued after issuing a "mount" command.
> 
> Q: why didn't Bacula automatically prune the volume data even though
> AutoPrune, Recyle and 'Recycle Current Volume', 'Accept Any Volume' are
> all set?
> 
> Regards,
>