On Tuesday 08 November 2005 18:31, Keith Brautigam wrote: > Short version - bacula is attempting to use a tape that is not loaded > into the autochanger even though a different, usable tape is loaded in > the autochanger. > > According to the documentation (that I have seen), bacula should always > prefer to use tapes in the changer to avoid unnecessary operator > intervention. Has anyone else run into this kind of problem? Is there > something obvious that I'm missing? I'm new to bacula and am otherwise > very impressed. > > Thanks!
If it always happens with the last slot in your autochanger, then it is a bug introduced in 1.38. This is fixed in the branch Branch-1_38_0 of the CVS and barring any new problems, I will release it as 1.38.1 at the end of the week. > > Keith > > > Long version & detail - > > I am using bacula 1.38 on Linux and have also seen the same problem with > bacula 1.37.4 on the same platform. Basically, I have a bunch of tapes > with bar codes already labeled by bacula. I use, say, all of tapes 1-7 > and part of tape 8. I then pull out tapes 1-8 to store off site having > completed a full backup and load in two unused tapes - 9 and 10. I > inform bacula of the change with 'update slots' and run a job. The > problem is that bacula still tries to use tape 8 even though it's not in > the changer. All the tapes are in the same Pool. I can see that when I > issue status for the storage daemon from the console. > > Here's the output from mtx showing the tapes loaded in the changer: > > mtx -f /dev/sg0 status > Storage Changer /dev/sg0:2 Drives, 31 Slots ( 1 Import/Export ) > Data Transfer Element 0:Empty > Data Transfer Element 1:Empty > Storage Element 15:Full :VolumeTag=USER0009 > Storage Element 16:Full :VolumeTag=USER0010 > > Here's the output from `update slots` showing that it works: > > * update slots > Catalog record for Volume "USER0009" updated to reference slot 15. > Catalog record for Volume "USER0010" updated to reference slot 16. > > Here's the status for the storage daemon after the job starts. Notice > that it says User0008 is in use: > > * st st > Device status: > Autochanger "430Changer" with devices: > "430Drive1" (/dev/nst0) > "430Drive2" (/dev/nst1) > Device "430Drive1" (/dev/nst0) is not open or does not exist. > Device is being initialized. > Drive 0 is not loaded. > Device "430Drive2" (/dev/nst1) open but no Bacula volume is mounted. > Drive 1 is not loaded. > Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0 > Positioned at File=0 Block=0 > ==== > > In Use Volume status: > USER0008 on device "430Drive1" (/dev/nst0) > ==== > > Here's bacula's information about the volumes: > > * list volumes > USER0007 | Full | 114,585,430,714 | > USER0008 | Append | 57,777,346,198 | > USER0009 | Append | 1 | > USER0010 | Append | 1 | > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
