Hello, niedz., 18 lis 2018 o 11:18 Sebastian Suchanek <bac...@suchanek.de> napisał(a):
> Hi everyone! > > In my Bacula installation (v7.4.4, Debian), I have a certain Full backup > job that is configured to go to a pool of tapes. One run of this backup > job currently spans abot 2.5 tapes. In order to make handling of the > tapes a bit more easier (I'm taking them to an off-site storage and will > re-use them after a few months), I would like to have the last, > half-used tape of a job run not to be used for the beginning of the > subsequent job run. Therefore, I configured "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" > for this pool. > In principle, this works as itended, but there's one thing that > irritates me: The first two tapes being used in a job run are not marked > as "Full" in the Bacula catalog (as I would've expected since they are > actually full), but as "Used". > Bacula marks a volume as Full when it reaches its capacity (real or limited by "Maximum Volume Bytes = ..." parameter) on any volume in Append status (or I miss something in the source code). As your volume is set to Used by "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" configured above the volume status Used is then preserved. > Is this a bug or a feature? Not a bug or feature. It works as configured by User. How can I configure that last half-used > volume from a job run isn't reused for the subsequent job run and at the > same time having actually full volumes marked as "Full"? > You can setup "Volume Use Duration = ..." which turn last volume to Used in a configured time duration. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net
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