Hi Arno, Thanks for your reply. Below is the schedule: schedule { name = "ZeusCycle" run = full 1st sun at 1:05 run = incremental mon-sat at 1:05 }
Basically my goal is to have automated disk management. I want a full backup done once a month, incrementals all other times, and to keep two months worth of backups in my storage area. Thanks. Dave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arno Lehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] repost: no appendable volumes, bacula 1.38 and autolabel > Hi, > > On 8/29/2006 4:18 AM, Dave wrote: >> Hi, >> I never saw this one go through, so i apologize for the repost. > > Actually, I saw it, but was too lazy - or busy with other things, if you > prefer that term ;-) - to reply... > >> Hello, >> I'm using bacula 1.38.11 on a FreeBSD 6.1 box as a bacula server. I'm >> having an issue with disk volumes, i'm using an altered example out of >> the >> manual for automatic disk volume management, yet i'm getting an >> inconsistent >> "no appendable volumes found. Please use the label command" error >> message. >> It seems to happen when near full, but i'm not getting rotation. Here's >> an >> error fragment: >> >> 25-Aug 04:05 zeus-sd: Job backup_zeus.2006-08-25_01.05.00 waiting. Cannot >> find any appendable volumes. >> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: >> Storage: "ZeusStorage" (/backup/bacula/zeus) >> Media type: File >> Pool: Zeus_Incremental >> >> And here's edited entries for this particular machine: > > See inline for my observations. > >> Job { >> Name = "backup_zeus" >> Type = Backup >> Level = Incremental >> Schedule = "ZeusCycle" >> Messages = Standard >> Client = zeus-fd >> FileSet = "fbsd_zeus" >> Pool = Default >> Full Backup Pool = Zeus_Full >> Incremental Backup Pool = Zeus_Incremental >> Storage = ZeusStorage >> Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/zeus.bsr" >> Priority = 10 >> } >> >> Client { >> Name = zeus-fd >> Address = zeus >> FDPort = 9102 >> Catalog = MyCatalog >> Password = "xxx" # password for FileDaemon >> File Retention = 62 days >> Job Retention = 3 months >> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files >> } >> >> Storage { >> Name = ZeusStorage >> Address = zeus >> SDPort = 9103 >> Password = "xxx" >> Device = ZeusStorage >> Media Type = File >> } >> >> pool { >> Name = Zeus_Full >> Pool Type = Backup >> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 # New file for each backup > > * note this. > >> Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle volumes >> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes >> Volume Retention = 2 months > > * Each volume should be kept for two months after being last used. > >> Maximum Volumes = 2 # Keep 2 fulls > > * There will only ever be two volumes in that pool. > >> Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool > > * remove this line as it doesn't have any effect and will no longer be > understood with 1.39 upwards. > >> LabelFormat = zeus-full >> } >> >> pool { >> Name = Zeus_Incremental >> Pool Type = Backup >> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 # New file for each backup >> Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle volumes >> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes >> Volume Retention = 2 months >> Maximum Volumes = 10 # Keep 10 incrementals >> Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool >> LabelFormat = zeus-incremental > > * similar, though not identical setup. > >> } >> >> bacula-sd.conf fragment: > > I don't think we need this. > >> Any suggestions appreciated. > > Ok, you didn't supply a schedule for the Zeus jobs, so I have to guess. > > The full jobs run each month. > > I guess it's simply a matter of the retention period not being over for > any of the volumes when the next jobs start. You can simply verify that > by doing a list or llist command and verify the volumes times: > LastWritten and and Retention. Bacula-Web displays a column with the > date a volume gets out of retention, by the way. > > You can easily "simulate" Baculas retention usage by looking at a > calender and counting the days - keep in mind that a month is 30 days > for Bacula. > > The usual suggestion would be to allow one more volume in the full pool, > or to shorten the retention period so that a volume that filled in a > previos month is allowed re recycling when the current job starts. > >> Thanks. >> Dave. > > I hope you can follow these hints - otherwise, post the schedule you use > and I'll see if it fits to the situation I assume. > > Arno > > -- > IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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