> On May 26, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Heitor Faria <hei...@bacula.com.br> wrote:
> 
> Hello Dan and Donna,
> On May 25, 2018, at 1:31 PM, Donna Hofmeister <do...@allegro.com 
> <mailto:do...@allegro.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Donna Hofmeister <do...@allegro.com 
> <mailto:do...@allegro.com>> wrote:
> 
> Second interesting question -- given my "Label Format" statement, I would 
> expect my files to be named something like this: Vol-minerva.allegro.com 
> <http://vol-minerva.allegro.com/>-fd-File-20180517-2305-73-19. So why are my 
> files named: MinervaBackup.2018-05-23_23.05.00_53?
> 
> To answer my own question....
> 
> I think the underlying issue was I had made several changes to the "label 
> format" statement while I've been testing Bacula...and had inadvertantly 
> created this situation.
> 
> To solve this, I wiped out my bacula storage environment and all seems to be 
> working well.
> 
> So -- reasking my second question -- if you change the "label format" 
> statement, is there additional steps after that?        - donna 
> 
> 
> 
> Issue an update in bconsole.
> I think the update is not necessary when changing the Volume Format since 
> prior created volumes are already created and Bacula won't rename them.

How will bacula-dir know about the changed label format without issuing the 
update command?

> I also think Bacula could criticize erratic volume names when reloading. E.g. 
> a misspelled variable ${Poll} is accepted, and the user will only find the 
> error when a Job gets stalled unable to create new volumes.

Sanity testing? Sounds good.

> Finally, I think the Bacula configuration default Label Format should be 
> ${Pool}-${NumVols}. Vol- works, but it becomes ugly when you use multiple 
> Pools such as Daily, Weekly etc. since Volume numeration matches the MediaID. 
> Having the ${Pool} name on the Volume might also help to distinguish them in 
> a Bacula disaster recovery scenario.


I have never subscribed to the LOTS OF INFO IN THE VOLUME LABEL school of 
thought.  I use Pool names:

$ grep 'LabelFormat' *
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "FullAuto-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "DiffAuto-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "IncrAuto-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "IncrAutoNoNextPool-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "FullAutoNoNextPool-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "TwoHourly-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "Daily-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "Weekly-"
pools.conf:  LabelFormat = "Monthly-"

-- 
Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
d...@langille.org


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