Hello William, On 2/18/21 16:28, William Muriithi wrote: > Hello > > I have a problem where bacula seem to be rejecting most of my tapes. I had > lapsed using tapes for a couple of months as I was working remote due to > covid. Recently, I re-started my tape backups and struggling as some tapes > are working fine, but others are a pain. > > For example, or jobs in the queue need tape 000006L6. I mounted it through > bacula, it came online, went into initializing, but bacula unmount it and > them mount tape 000118L6. > > > That don't work out too and leave bacula in usable state as seen below: > > Device status: > Autochanger "SuperLoader3" with devices: > "ULTRIUM-HH7" (/dev/nst0) > > Device Tape is "ULTRIUM-HH7" (/dev/nst0) waiting for: > Volume: 000118L6 > Pool: eng_father > Media type: LTO-6 > Total Bytes Read=64,512 Blocks Read=1 Bytes/block=64,512 > Positioned at File=0 Block=0 > Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume "000006L6", > Pool: eng_father > Media type: LTO-6 > Slot 7 is loaded in drive 0. > > What would be the best way to work around this? > > Regards, > William > > 18-Feb 00:07 bacula-dir JobId 137: Using Device "ULTRIUM-HH7" to write. > 18-Feb 00:07 eng-backup01-sd JobId 137: Warning: Director wanted Volume > "000006L6". > Current Volume "000118L6" not acceptable because: > 1998 Volume "000118L6" catalog status is Purged, not in Pool. > 18-Feb 00:07 eng-backup01-sd JobId 137: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload > Volume 000006L6, Slot 7, Drive 0" command. > 18-Feb 00:08 eng-backup01-sd JobId 137: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load Volume > 000006L6, Slot 7, Drive 0" command. > 18-Feb 00:09 eng-backup01-sd JobId 137: 3305 Autochanger "load Volume > 000006L6, Slot 7, Drive 0", status is OK. > 18-Feb 00:09 eng-backup01-sd JobId 137: Warning: Director wanted Volume > "000006L6". > Current Volume "000118L6" not acceptable because: > 1998 Volume "000118L6" catalog status is Purged, not in Pool. > 18-Feb 00:09 eng-backup01-sd JobId 137: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload > Volume 000006L6, Slot 7, Drive 0" command. >
It looks that Bacula has tried to load the slot 7 with the tape 000006L6, and he got the tape 000118L6. I would suggest to run the "update slots" command to make sure that the Slot information is properly set for each Media. Hope it helps! _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
