Hi,

24.06.2008 17:49, Felix Brack wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Felix Brack <fb AT ltec DOT ch> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am using bacula version 1.38.11.

Time for an upgrade, I think...

>>> The storage daemon often reports that a tape belongs to pool "*unknown*"
>>> as shown below after I enter 'status sd' in the console:
>>>
>>> Device status:
>>> Device "SONY-SDX-470V" (/dev/nst0) is mounted with Volume="WOCHE-3" 
>>> Pool="*unknown*"
>>>    Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
>>>    Positioned at File=0 Block=0
>>>
>>> However when I enter 'list volumes' in the console I get:
>>>
>>> Pool: Week Pool
>>> +---------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+
>>> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes    | VolFiles | VolRetention 
>>> | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType   | LastWritten         |
>>> +---------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+
>>> | 5       | WOCHE-1    | Recycle   | 1           | 0        | 2592000      
>>> | 1       | 0    | 1         | AIT-1-TURBO | 2008-05-30 14:04:29 |
>>> | 6       | WOCHE-2    | Append    | 6190782808  | 8        | 2592000      
>>> | 1       | 0    | 1         | AIT-1-TURBO | 2008-06-13 23:47:36 |
>>> | 7       | WOCHE-3    | Purged    | 2103397     | 1        | 2592000      
>>> | 1       | 0    | 1         | AIT-1-TURBO | 2008-05-30 14:17:13 |
>>> | 8       | WOCHE-4    | Purged    | 2103978     | 2        | 2592000      
>>> | 1       | 0    | 1         | AIT-1-TURBO | 2008-05-30 14:23:04 |
>>> | 16      | WOCHE-5    | Purged    | 12151169541 | 15       | 2592000      
>>> | 1       | 0    | 1         | AIT-1-TURBO | 2008-05-30 23:47:08 |
>>> +---------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+
>>>
>>> To my understanding bacula knows what pool the tape 'WOCHE-3' is in, so
>>> why does the storage daemon report pool "'*unknown*"? Shouldn't it return
>>> pool "Week" ?
>>>
>> This is a known feature. It will do that until it actually uses the media.
>>
>> John
> 
> Are you sure? From the output of 'status sd' below one can see that tape
> 'TAG-2' is in use but the storage daemon still reports a poolname '*unknown*'.

This is correct. The SD itself doesn't know about pools. It knows the 
pool assignment of a volume only after the DIR told it, and until that 
volume is used, the DIR doesn't tell the SD.

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
www.its-lehmann.de

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