Le 20/09/2018 à 05:23, Gary Dale a écrit :
On 2018-09-19 05:35 PM, Jérôme Blion wrote:
Le 19/09/2018 à 21:40, Gary Dale a écrit :
I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server.
When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing
amount of data needing to be backed up, it usually fails after I
create the first new volume. There is lots of free space on the
disk, so it's not that. Eventually I might be able to create another
new volume (possibly because of an intervening reboot) but in the
meanwhile I only have the one new volume (25G) which is about 1/10
the size of a full backup...
Here's an example of what I see in bconsole when executing the label
command:
Sending label command for Volume "weekly-backup-pool-30" Slot 0 ...
3934 Device ""FileStorage" (/home/shares/backup)" is being initialized.
Label command failed for Volume weekly-backup-pool-30.
Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
Any ideas on what is happening and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Hello,
why don't you let bacula create volumes when needed ?
Because I didn't start with them that way and bacula doesn't like you
to change volume labels once assigned. It wants to create new volumes
with a 4-digit serial number ending. I've been using 2-digits. The
manual recommends using python scripts for this which I don't want to
get into to save myself what should be a few minutes every few months.
http://www.bacula.org/7.4.x-manuals/en/misc/Variable_Expansion.html
Perhaps you should do some tests to see if if can create volumes
according to your naming convention.
You should avoid any manual action regarding your backup solution.
That's a troubles source.
Moreover, it isn't guaranteed to resolve the problem I'm having. If
bacula can't label a volume manually through bconsole, why should I
expect it to do so automatically?
I'd still also need to monitor the number of volumes / amount of disk
space bacula is taking so it might not actually save me any time. It
just gives me a different thing to worry about.
http://www.bacula.org/7.4.x-manuals/en/main/Basic_Volume_Management.html
When using automatic volume creation, you should use:
Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G # Limit Volume size to something
reasonable
Maximum Volumes = 10 # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
This way, you don't have to worry about disk filling.
HTH.
Jérôme Blion.
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