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Hello all,

I'm trying to place my volumes into a scratch pool of a custom name using these lines. However, the volumes do not move into the scratch pool after usage. Instead, they remain in the pool called "bryanslack-virtuals". When I run "list volume" I get a volume in my scratch pool. The listed volume says Recycle for VolStatus.

I guess my question is, how can I move the volumes used by a job right after that job runs?

Pool {
Name = bryanslack-virtuals
Storage = bryanslack-virtuals
Pool Type = Backup
Use Volume Once = yes
Recycle = yes
Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
Recycle Current Volume = yes
Purge Oldest Volume = yes
Auto Prune = yes
Maximum Volumes = 100
Volume Retention = 1 minute
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Label Format = "${Client}_${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r}-${Pool}-${JobId}"
Next Pool = bryanslack
Action On Purge = Truncate
Scratch Pool = bryanslack-scratch
Recycle Pool = bryanslack-scratch
}

Pool {
Name = bryanslack-scratch
Pool Type = Backup
}

Bryan

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On 06/19/2012 07:57 PM, Bryan Harris wrote:
Hello all,

I'm trying to place my volumes into a scratch pool of a custom name
using these lines. However, the volumes do not move into the scratch
pool after usage. Instead, they remain in the pool called
"bryanslack-virtuals". When I run "list volume" I get a volume in my
scratch pool. The listed volume says Recycle for VolStatus.

I guess my question is, how can I move the volumes used by a job
right after that job runs?

The short answer is, to my knowledge there is no built-in capability to
cause a volume to be moved into a specified pool upon completion of a job.

Now, you can leave volumes in the scratch pool and have them moved from
there into a specified new folder BEFORE running a job. And you can
have volumes moved into a specified scratch pool when recycled. But if
you want to trigger a pool change on job *completion*, I believe you're
going to have to script it yourself as a RunAfterJob event.


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On 2012-06-19 19:57, Bryan Harris wrote:
Hello all,

I'm trying to place my volumes into a scratch pool of a custom name
using these lines. However, the volumes do not move into the scratch
pool after usage. Instead, they remain in the pool called
"bryanslack-virtuals". When I run "list volume" I get a volume in my
scratch pool. The listed volume says Recycle for VolStatus.

I guess my question is, how can I move the volumes used by a job
right after that job runs?

Pool {
Name = bryanslack-virtuals
Storage = bryanslack-virtuals
Pool Type = Backup
Use Volume Once = yes
Recycle = yes
Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
Recycle Current Volume = yes
Purge Oldest Volume = yes
Auto Prune = yes
Maximum Volumes = 100
Volume Retention = 1 minute
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Label Format =

"${Client}_${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r}-${Pool}-${JobId}"
Next Pool = bryanslack
Action On Purge = Truncate
Scratch Pool = bryanslack-scratch
Recycle Pool = bryanslack-scratch
}

Pool {
Name = bryanslack-scratch
Pool Type = Backup
}

After making these changes, did you run update in bconsole? You need
to update the volume definitions from the pool definition.

That is, you need to tell the existing volumes that their attributes
have changes.

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Hi Dan,

I believe that solved my problem, and explains why the new volume (which only got created after making changes and running "reload") made it into the "bryanslack-scratch" pool. But the other old volumes still around from before the changes didn't seem to want to go into the scratch pool like I wanted.

Also I put some lines to kick off a "remove scratch pools" admin-job after my job. After a migration the source volumes go to scratch, then after that, they get deleted from the catalog and from the disk. I'm not sure if after or before is right, in fact I am not sure if I'm using the scratch pools correctly in the first place. But now when I run "list volume" I don't see anything in the virtual pool anymore, which was what I was hoping for. They go to scratch, and then the stuff below removes them.

Command = "sh -c \"/bin/echo run job=bryanslack-remove yes | bconsole -n\""

Then that job (bryanslack-remove) basically does nothing at all except it runs this at the end,

Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/removeScratchPools.sh %c"

And that command is converted from a perl script I found somewhere.



Thanks Dan and Phil for your time.

Bryan

On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Dan Langille wrote:

On 2012-06-19 19:57, Bryan Harris wrote:
Hello all,

I'm trying to place my volumes into a scratch pool of a custom name
using these lines. However, the volumes do not move into the scratch
pool after usage. Instead, they remain in the pool called
"bryanslack-virtuals". When I run "list volume" I get a volume in my
scratch pool. The listed volume says Recycle for VolStatus.

I guess my question is, how can I move the volumes used by a job
right after that job runs?

Pool {
Name = bryanslack-virtuals
Storage = bryanslack-virtuals
Pool Type = Backup
Use Volume Once = yes
Recycle = yes
Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
Recycle Current Volume = yes
Purge Oldest Volume = yes
Auto Prune = yes
Maximum Volumes = 100
Volume Retention = 1 minute
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Label Format =
"${Client}_${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r}-${Pool}-${JobId}"
Next Pool = bryanslack
Action On Purge = Truncate
Scratch Pool = bryanslack-scratch
Recycle Pool = bryanslack-scratch
}

Pool {
Name = bryanslack-scratch
Pool Type = Backup
}

After making these changes, did you run update in bconsole? You need to update the volume definitions from the pool definition.

That is, you need to tell the existing volumes that their attributes have changes.

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Dan Langille - http://langille.org/


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