On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 16:11 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Brian Clarkson <bri...@lnstar.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:06 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> >> >> Make the volume retention much longer. And then apply that to all of
> >> >> your volumes.
> >> >
> >> > Wouldn't the volume retention period need to be shorter?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Retention period is how long to keep the volume before it can be reused.
> >
> > So if I don't want to reuse volumes I should set the retention period to
> > zero?
> >
>
> Definitely not. I know telling bacula to keep your backup data for 0
> seconds is not what you want. Set this to the amount of time you want
> to keep your data after the backup is finished.
>
> > Reusing the files (a volume is just a collection of 512m files per my
> > configuration) is what I want to stop.
> >
>
> I got you there. As you mentioned you need to turn off automatic
> volume recycling. Please post your configs. Have you had bacula reload
> the config file after you have changed it?
I restarted the bacula director after making the changes. Subsequent
backup jobs still re-used files.
>From bacula-dir.conf
Pool {
Name = Default
Label Format = "${JobName}-${Level}-${NumVols}"
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = no
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Use Volume Once = yes
Volume Retention = 25 days
MaximumVolumeBytes = 512m
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
}
Client {
Name = client-fd
Address = server.com
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "***"
File Retention = 21 days
Job Retention = 21 days
AutoPrune = yes
}
Job {
Name = "Backup Server"
Type = Backup
Client = server-fd
FileSet = "Full Set"
Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
Storage = Storage
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Write Bootstrap = "/usr/local/bacula/var/bacula/working/server.bsr"
}
Storage {
Name = Storage
Address = storage.server.com
SDPort = 9103
Password = "***"
Device = StorageServer
Media Type = File
}
>From bacula-sd.conf
Device {
Name = StorageServer
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /home/bacula-data/
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled
media
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
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