>>>>> On Wed, 04 May 2011 13:38:37 +1000, Philip Yarra said:
>
> On 03/05/11 00:00, John Drescher wrote:
> > 2011/5/2 Philip Yarra<pyarra AT radoncvic.com DOT au>:
> >> My bacula now seems to be firmly wedged, with all jobs trying to use the
> >> same volume (and my config very definitely says to use each volume only
> >> once).
> >>
> >> Scheduled Jobs:
> >> Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume
> >> ===================================================================================
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 wd-server-user-shares
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 em-fap-user-shares
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 rg-server-user-shares
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 ep-server-user-shares
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 fr-server-user-shares
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 rov-impac-1-tshome
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 zevon-home
> >> Full-0179
> >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 rov-citrix-cs-documents
> >> Full-0179
> >> ====
> >>
> >> Can anyone advise on how bacula has got wedged like this, and how I can fix
> >> it? Help??
> >>
> > Bacula does not really know what volume it will use till it actually
> > starts the backup so the display will not take into account "Use
> > volume once" or any other condition that limits the volume usage.
>
> That's right - normally it displays *unknown* in the column for volume,
> and it gets a new volume allocated when the job runs. But in the case I
> showed above, the upcoming jobs had been pre-allocated a volume, which
> isn't normal. Also, they'd all been allocated the same one, which won't
> work, as each volume can be used once only.
>
> Hence why I'm asking "how could this happen?" and "how do I fix it?"
It displays the first usable volume in the pool, without doing any pruning or
creating any new volumes. It displays *unknown* when there are no usable
volumes (e.g. they are all marked as Full or Used).
So apparently Full-0179 was still available at that time.
__Martin
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