On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Nasos Nikologiannis wrote: > I have a Bacula test setup running in order to decide about volume rotation > before migrating to production. > > The setup includes multi pools with volume rotation, one pool per client per > backup type (full, differential, incremental). > > I observed that although I change the Volume Retention period to another > (shorter) value, that doesn't reflect neither to actual volume rotation > mechanism nor > to actual volumes number written to the disk (storage daemon). Maximum > Volumes directive doesn't seem to work either. > > The Volume Retention period for a client with incremental backup type was > initially set to 20 minutes that resulted 5 Volumes given that the job was > set to run every 5 minutes. > After changing the Volume Retention period to 10 minutes, Bacula kept > rotating the same 5 Volumes as before ignoring the change (I restarted the > director daemon just after the change to be sure). > I also tried to set Maximum Volumes directive to 3 but this was also ignored. > > Is the above behaviour normal? I also want to ask what is the purpose of > Maximum Volumes directive, given that the volume rotation is managed > exclusively by Volume Retention period > (Volume Retention period decides when to start recycling the volumes). >
Yes, this is expected behavior if you have not run the update command. Run it in console to refresh: * the pool definition * the volume characteristics from the pool Keep in mind: a Pool definition contains the parameters to be used when a Volume is created. Thereafter, it has no effect on that Pool. Consider the Pool definition to be template, not a set of common parameters. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
