I had exactly the same problem two weeks ago and I still haven't found
an explanation why Bacula do this ...
Perhaps there is a bug in Bacula recycling process when you only specify
a Volume Retention (lower than a Job / File Retention) ? But in the doc
said : "The *Volume Retention* is applied independently of the *Job
Retention* and the *File Retention* periods defined in the Client
resource. This means that all the retentions periods are applied in turn
and that the shorter period is the one that effectively takes precedence. "
So ...
Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I know this subject has come up before, but I couldn't find a satisfying
> answer (could be because I got frustrated with both the gmane and
> sourceforge interfaces). I have 16 tapes that I am using for a weekly
> backup that takes 4 tapes. I can't get it to cycle through the tapes in
> a sane way. For example:
>
> *list volumes pool=Weekly
> +---------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles |
> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
> |
> +---------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | 4 | A0000006 | Full | 79362076751 | 79 | 2160000
> | 1 | 4 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-09 05:15:23 |
> | 5 | A0000007 | Full | 100904116589 | 100 | 2160000
> | 1 | 5 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-14 12:41:53 |
> | 9 | B0000001 | Full | 99954370892 | 99 | 2160000
> | 1 | 6 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-14 08:08:54 |
> | 10 | B0000002 | Used | 77612588182 | 79 | 2160000
> | 1 | 7 | 1 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-09 19:05:25 |
> | 11 | B0000005 | Full | 78808048051 | 78 | 2160000
> | 1 | 4 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-16 18:53:08 |
> | 12 | B0000006 | Purged | 79411170848 | 79 | 2160000
> | 1 | 5 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-16 11:39:32 |
> | 17 | D0000002 | Recycle | 1 | 0 | 2160000
> | 1 | 6 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-16 05:37:07 |
> | 18 | A0000001 | Full | 78939313776 | 79 | 2160000
> | 1 | 7 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-17 17:59:50 |
> | 32 | E0000005 | Full | 100050107110 | 100 | 2160000
> | 1 | 4 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-30 18:55:36 |
> | 37 | A0000002 | Full | 101892440467 | 101 | 2160000
> | 1 | 5 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-09-30 23:34:33 |
> | 52 | F0000007 | Full | 106290481269 | 106 | 2160000
> | 1 | 6 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-01 04:42:56 |
> | 53 | F0000008 | Used | 12416649864 | 13 | 2160000
> | 1 | 7 | 0 | VXA-2 | 2006-10-01 05:44:07 |
> +---------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>
> Why did bacula decide to recycle/purge tapes that were last written on
> Sept 16 instead of a volume that was last written on Sept 9th? I'm sure
> there is some logical reason for this, but it is not obvious to me, and
> I therefor don't know what I can do to remedy the situation. I'm
> wondering if there is some other way to cycle through these tapes so
> that it is easier to predict which four tapes bacula will want each
> week. Right now I have to play a game where I disable tapes as bacula
> picks the wrong ones until bacula picks a tape that I have put in the
> changer (for what I thought were logical reasons!). Here is my current
> weekly definition:
>
> Pool {
> Name = Weekly
> Volume Use Duration = 5d # only uses each tape for one week
> Pool Type = Backup
> Cleaning Prefix = "CLN"
> AutoPrune = yes
> VolumeRetention = 25d
> Recycle = yes
> }
>
> How can I do this better? Thanks for any advice, cheers, Maria
>
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