Re: [Bacula-users] Why isn't bacula asking for a tape from the pool?

[Bruno F. <br...@io...>]

Bill Damage wrote:
> Hi, well its happened, I did ask about this on this list a while back and thought it was sorted. I only have 10 tapes in my pool. I set up a daily incremental, and identified the pool to have 10 in. It worked fine and each time a change was needed I labelled them on the fly, like 002, 003 etc. Its just finished tape 010 and is asking me to mount a new one, the message is the same as the others i.e. please use "label" to create a new one, and NOT "please mount volume 001". I did mount tape 001 anyway, but it refused to continue the backup and is still asking for a new one. The pool is defined like this:
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = P01
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes                       # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 14 days          
>   Maximum Volumes = 10
> }
> 
> and the volumes have been used like this:
> 
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes       | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> |       1 | 001        | Full      |       1 | 10,482,554,880 |       11 |   31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-09-22 09:30:44 |
> |       2 | 002        | Full      |       1 | 10,467,846,144 |       12 |   31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-09-23 12:44:38 |
> |       3 | 003        | Full      |       1 | 10,467,459,072 |       11 |   31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-09-24 14:35:22 |
> |       4 | 004        | Full      |       1 | 10,483,522,560 |       16 |   31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-11 07:38:38 |
> |       5 | 005        | Full      |       1 | 10,480,167,936 |       11 |    1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-12 09:29:09 |
> |       7 | 006        | Full      |       1 | 10,489,780,224 |       11 |    1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-15 01:21:47 |
> |       8 | 007        | Full      |       1 | 10,472,103,936 |       12 |    1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-15 12:58:18 |
> |       9 | 008        | Full      |       1 | 10,490,812,416 |       11 |    1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-22 13:51:42 |
> |      10 | 009        | Full      |       1 | 10,471,781,376 |       12 |    1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-19 09:12:35 |
> |      11 | 010        | Full      |       1 | 10,493,328,384 |       11 |    1,209,600 |       1 |    0 |         0 | DDS-4     | 2008-10-21 23:32:10 |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> 
> 
> btw what are those numbers under VolRetention all about?
> 
> Thanks.
First time you initialize tape 1 to 4 I suspect you have another volretention time affected to the pool.
31536000 / 86400 ( 24h ) = 365 days

When you change the retention time to your pool it doesn't affect already initialized tape.
You just have to use the update command in bconsole and adjust the retention for the tape.

This is not magic it just writted inside the manual.


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