Hello,
Tom Boyda wrote:
Hello,
I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend.
You should consider upgrading to 1.37.38 - I think there are some
serious improvements.
I have set my monthly pools to have "Volume Use Duration" of 3 days.
Three days was an arbitrary number - all full backups complete in about
8 hours - I picked three days in case there was a problem I would have
time to correct and still let bacula write to the tape. I want the
monthly tapes taken offsite.
It looked like Volume Use Duration is the key I want - Once I start
writing to tape after three days the tape will be marked "Used" and
bacula will use the next volume in the pool. After the monthly full
backups complete I remove the tapes from the changer and put it in the
offsite box. At this time the monthly tapes have gone offsite but bacula
still has the tapes marked as "Append". I know I could mark the tapes by
hand as "Used" but I really would like bacula to do this for me.
Even better would be Archive, because these tapes are not automatically
recycled, and thus never requested. Although, with current Bacula
status, this would not pose a problem it would work cleaner.
I am wondering when the tape will be marked "Used"?
Only when bacula actually decides it should use them for writing. That
is, if you remove them from the autochanger before the 3 days are over,
Bacula knows that there are other volumes better suited for use and uses
those first.
Will this be a problem if the tape is not in the changer and bacula
wants to change the tape status?
No, the status is purely a catalog thing.
What Am I doing wrong? Or what have I missed that "Volume Use Duration"
is not marking the tapes as used?
Nothing, everything is all right...
Now, I imagine one could modify bacula to do how you want it to work,
but in your situation, I'd make things differently.
Should I just mark the tapes used by hand?
Personally, I think "by hand" and "reliable backup" are rather
incompatible, so - No.
Really I want our operator to pull the tapes and put them in the offsite
box without my intervention. And when we get up to our cycle period when
the "old" full monthly backup tapes return they will be put back into
the changer so they can be recycled and reused.
I'd do the following:
Create a script that scan the catalog and markes all tapes as Archive
which you will move offsite, in your case all Full backup tapes that are
in Full or Append or Used state and in the loader. Send a list with the
tape names and slot number to the operator, requesting to remplace these
tapes. Mark the slots affected as empty.
Finally, create a script that uses baculas 'update slots' command to
re-scan the autochanger, and have that execute when the operator
acknowledges the tape change.
Or, if you have a library with mailslot or removable magazine, let your
script automatically eject the tapes that should be moved offsite.
Might take a day or two to get this working, but afterwards you don't
have to do hese things manually, and your operator only needs to
operate, not to think :-)
Arno
Thank you for your help.
Tom.
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