Kern Sibbald schrieb: > On Sunday 02 December 2007 11:07, Ralf Gross wrote: > > Ralf Gross schrieb: > > > [...] > > > This changes makes the scratch pool useless, because bacula does not > > > prune volumes during the 'status dir' command, but still decides if a > > > volume of the scratch pool will be used. This way a volume of the scrach > > > pool will be moved to the Differential (or Full) pool all the time the > > > command is issued... > > > > ...and no other volume with state Append, Recycle etc. is available in > > that specific pool. E.g. for each new weekly Differential backup a new > > scratch pool volume will be used if the status dir command is issued > > before. > > > > Just to make it a bit clearer. > > I *think* the patch I attached to your bug report #1019 will fix these > problems.
Thanks, I'll apply the patch tomorrow and report what happens next - this might take one or two weeks. Can you confirm that the Recycling Algorithm is still valid after the changes in 2.2.x? http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html [...] 5. Prune volumes applying Volume retention period (Volumes with VolStatus Full, Used, or Append are pruned). 6. Search the Pool for a Volume with VolStatus=Purged 7. If InChanger was set, go back to the first step above, but this second time, ignore the InChanger flag in step 2. 8. Attempt to create a new Volume if automatic labeling enabled If Python is enabled, a Python NewVolume even is generated before the Label Format check is used. 9. If a Pool named "Scratch" exists, search for a Volume and if found move it to the current Pool for the Job and use it. [...] For me step 5 and 9 are most important, because the volume retention times of my pools are set to expire just a couple of days before the next backup happens. So I'm depending on step 5 is done before step 9. If it's done during 'status dir' or at backup time is not that important. The status command was just a convenient way to trigger pruning before the next backup happed and see that everything was ok (retention time error or not enough volumes in a pool). Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
