Thanks Mat, that sounds plausible, but is it even possible to have two devices for the same folder on disk, which have access to the same volumes? So far I believed that was impossible, but I am only a casual user of Bacula.
> On 19. Apr 2023, at 08:00, Matlink <matl...@matlink.fr> wrote: > > Bacula works with disk volumes similarly as it does with tape volumes. > Therefore, when truncating, it needs to mount the volume in a free drive to > write some metadata on it. If you have no available drive, bacula can't > operate. > To solve this issue you probably need to declare a second drive like the > first one. > Cheers, > Mat. > > > Le 19 avril 2023 00:58:39 GMT+02:00, Justin Case <jus7inc...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > Hello all, > > while I have running backup jobs the storage is running out of space (disk > file changer volumes). As the pool (pool2) that is currently written has > already been truncated (manually some weeks ago), recycling of volumes does > not create free space. > > I thus wanted to truncate volumes from a different pool (pool1) while the > backup is writing to pool2: > truncate pool=pool1-incr storage=storage1 > > I get the following error (for each purged volume in pool1)(showing just 1 > here): > > Error truncating Volume “pool1-incr-vol-1109" > 3908 Error reserving volume: vol_mgr.c:418 Cannot free Volume > “pool2-full-vol-0703", because it is reserved by someone else. > > What is the reason that I cannot truncate on storage1 while a backup job is > running on storage1? > There is only 1 backup job running at a time. > > The MaximumConcurrentJobs directives are configured as follows: > > SD config file: > -Storage1 allows 20 concurrent jobs in the SD config file. > -The device allows for 5 concurrent jobs. > > Director config file: > -The director allows 20 concurrent jobs. > -Storage1 only allows 1 concurrent job in the director config file. Would > this have to be configured to the same number as in the SD config file? > -Is the limit of 1 here prohibiting me to truncate while the backup job is > running? > -The clients allow only 1 concurrent job. > > FD config file: > -The FD allows 20 concurrent jobs. > > In general I want jobs to run sequentially, but truncating should be able to > happen simultaneously. Is it possible to realize that? > Wich MaximumConcurrentJobs directives would I need to change and how? > > Thanks for taking the time to consider my question, > J/C > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users>
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