Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-13 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 12 Dec 2005 at 22:04, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: A key point mentioned above, that can be a source of frustration, is that Bacula will only recycle purged Volumes if there is no other appendable Volume available, otherwise, it will always write to an appendable Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-12 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Dec 2005 at 20:09, Martin Simmons wrote: I suggest you post the output of llist volumes. Did all that, no response :-( Anyhow, I still have to manually purge each tape, how do I get around this. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-12 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 1 Dec 2005 at 10:37, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, a shorter Volume retention period will force pruning of job and file data, but as the manual and a recent email point out, after changing the .conf volume retention period, you must update the catalog data for volumes that already exist.

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-05 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Dec 2005 at 9:12, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: On 1 Dec 2005 at 9:29, Sebastian Stark wrote: You have to use the update command to first update the pool parameters from the config file and the use update again to update the volume parameters from the pool: update - pool from

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 1 Dec 2005 at 9:29, Sebastian Stark wrote: You have to use the update command to first update the pool parameters from the config file and the use update again to update the volume parameters from the pool: update - pool from resource update - volume parameters - select pool -

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Friday 02 December 2005 18:12, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: On 1 Dec 2005 at 9:29, Sebastian Stark wrote: You have to use the update command to first update the pool parameters from the config file and the use update again to update the volume parameters from the pool: update - pool

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Dec 2005 at 19:00, Sebastian Stark wrote: You can see the result in list media Nope, no difference. I had the run before update on the screen and compared it to the run afterwards, no difference. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:57:42 -0800, Harondel J. Sibble [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Harondel On 1 Dec 2005 at 10:37, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, a shorter Volume retention period will force pruning of job and file data, but as the manual and a recent email point out, after changing the .conf

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Dec 2005 at 20:09, Martin Simmons wrote: When was the volume last written? All the retention times are counted from the last write time. If you wrote it on day 5, then on day 7 the day 5 backup from was only 2 days old and still within the retention period, hence the tape should not

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-01 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
--Da: Harondel J. Sibble [EMAIL PROTECTED]A: Sebastian Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data: 1 dicembre 2005 7.02.59 CETOggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse On 30 Nov 2005 at 19:20

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-01 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:04:40AM +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but as I'm having the same problem for months, I deduce there is something wrong on the Bacula pdf document: it states that bacula will consider the shortest retention period during prune. So, I guessed from

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 01 December 2005 09:39, Sebastian Stark wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:04:40AM +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but as I'm having the same problem for months, I deduce there is something wrong on the Bacula pdf document: it states that bacula will consider the

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-01 Thread Ryan Novosielski
The other question I had regarding this issue is how to reconcile job retention vs. volume retention. With an appendable volume, if jobs are held for 30 days, they will expire at all different times. I'm not sure how this can relate to media retention, which obviously can only be around until

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-01 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 1 Dec 2005 at 10:37, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, a shorter Volume retention period will force pruning of job and file data, but as the manual and a recent email point out, after changing the .conf volume retention period, you must update the catalog data for volumes that already exist.

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:01:15AM -0800, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: I am pretty sure I am missing something fairly fundamental in the way volumes are recycled, I've read through the docs, checking the list postings, but have been unable to get a handle on this. Basically, if I start with a

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I am having the same problem. And I'm getting mad with the flags.I recently started to think I have old jobs that stored the old job retention period.How can I get rid of all that old jobs that are no more valid, without having to delete each by hand?Should I start again from a scratch database

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:34:24 +0100 (CET), Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Gabriele How can I get rid of all that old jobs that are no more valid, Gabriele without having to delete each by hand? I would so this by editing the output of list jobs to include the old jobs and writing

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 30 Nov 2005 at 19:20, Sebastian Stark wrote: From your bacula-dir.conf it looks like your job retention is 30 days. As I understand bacula it won't (automatically) prune volumes unless it has purged all jobs referring to this volume. Ahh, so I should set the job retention period to

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 30 Nov 2005 at 19:20, Sebastian Stark wrote: From your bacula-dir.conf it looks like your job retention is 30 days. As I understand bacula it won't (automatically) prune volumes unless it has purged all jobs referring to this volume. So once I make that change in my conf file, do I have