This was exactly my issue. I had “Recycle oldest volume” on. Which meant it was looking to see if there was anything to recycle but since my job/file retentions are so high there was no chance it would ever find anything and so it keeps chugging and chugging trying to fid it.
Learned a lot in this threat. Thanks everyone. Jeff. On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda <emiliaarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Bacula will not use any volume before retention perdidos. Unless you specify > in your pool configuration "purge oldest volume". This directive does not > respect the retention perdiods and will find the oldest used volume to > recycle. It is recommended the use of "recycle oldest volume" instead. If > none of this directives are specified, Bacula will stuck waiting you to mount > a new volume that it can use for the job. > > When I make this kind of decisions, I plan carefully the amount of space of > each backup job I have and always there will be a volume to recycle. > > Regards, > Ana > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jeff MacDonald <j...@terida.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File > retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days. > > 100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old. > > Right now bacula is attempting to prune the oldest volume. As I understand > things.. this will not result in any thing actually being pruned from that > volume and essentially my db is just going to spin and move onto the next > volume until I add new ones for it to use. Am I correct? > > And if so. I’m taking suggestions on how to handle this smarter. I guess I > should add that I have AutoPrune On. I guess if that was off, then the job > would instead wait until I increased the amount of volumes allowed in the > pool instead of going into this foolish loop? > > Jeff. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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