Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-05-20 11:31:13
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:28:51 -0400
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 AT yahoo DOT com> 
wrote:
> --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Once purged, you can either let Bacula recycle them itself,
>> or you can
>> use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume
>> status to
>> Recycle.  This is a particularly straightforward
>> operation if you are
>> using BAT, since you can do it on all the volumes at once.
>>
>
> I think I have my volumes set wrong.  I had an error today after every volume 
> finally had been used at least once:
>
> ==
> 20-May 02:05 bacula-va-sd JobId 75: Job Bacula_Server.2010-05-20_01.05.00_02 
> is
> waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
>    Storage:      "FileStorage" (/opt/bacula/volumes)
>    Pool:         File
>    Media type:   File
> ==
>
> I thought I fixed this, but apparently not.  How should the Volume Status be 
> set in order to cycle through volumes and start over after the last one is 
> used?  When the above failure occurred, all my Volume Status's were "Used".
>

All of the volume status of Used is good. Next look at the lastwritten
time to see if any of the volumes are available for recycling.

list media pool=File

John

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