On 2006-05-21, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am concerned about the unpredictability of the tape handling here, >> alas. > > I can't say I experience unpredictable tape handling here, so it would > be good do see more detailed information from you: If possible, use a > pool with a very limited number of volumes (the three you talk about > seems ok), collect all the tape status information before you start a
I've got three volumes in our Weekly pool and five in our Daily one. > job (i.e. use 'list' and 'llist' commands on the pool and the volumes in > it) and in case of unpredictable behaviour, and of course make sure your Good idea. > catalog is in a consistent state (i.e. don't modify the catalog database > unless you know how to fix it :-) > > It is very important to keep in mind that the volume metadata is > individual for each volume, so that, after modifying retention times, > you have to apply these changes to the existing volumes, too. Also, the Yup... I ran the update volumes command that updates all volumes from the pool defaults. > retention period begins after the last write to a volume, so for example > your backup job takes 3.5 hours, 21 hours of retention are too long to > ensure availability after 24 hours. Right... but I'm not speaking of setting retention to 21h, but volume use duration to 21h -- that is, 21 hours after the first write, Bacula will no longer consider writing to it. Thanks for the reply, Arno. I'll see what happens tonight and let everyone know. -- John ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
