Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula asking for wrong tape.

2008-08-09 18:52:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula asking for wrong tape.
From: Craig White <craigwhite AT azapple DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:52:20 -0700
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 15:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 23:35 +0100, Keith Sudbury wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 01:51 +0100, Keith Sudbury wrote:
> > >   
> > >> I Have 4 friday tapes all in a friday pool, bacula should be asking for 
> > >> friday2 however I had to restart the directory today and after the 
> > >> restart it is now asking for friday3 to be mounted! is there anyway to 
> > >> make it used friday2?
> > >>     
> > > ----
> > > what is output of
> > >
> > > list media pool=FridayPool # or whatever you call it
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
> > >   
> > 
> > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+-----
> >                                                                             
> >                  
> > ---------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | 
> > VolFiles | 
> > VolR                                                                        
> >                      
> > etention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
> > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+-----
> >                                                                             
> >                  
> > ---------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> > |       5 | friday1    | Purged    |       1 | 203,715,606,528 |      
> > 207 
> > |                                                                           
> >                         
> > 432,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2008-07-26 02:18:39 |
> > |       6 | friday2    | Used      |       1 |  29,428,310,016 |       
> > 30 
> > |                                                                           
> >                         
> > 432,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2008-08-08 23:16:19 |
> > |       7 | friday3    | Recycle   |       1 |               1 |        
> > 0 
> > |                                                                           
> >                         
> > 432,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2008-07-07 03:02:27 |
> > |       8 | friday4    | Purged    |       1 | 107,315,582,976 |      
> > 109 
> > |                                                                           
> >                         
> > 432,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2008-07-14 06:24:29 |
> > |       9 | friday5    | Purged    |       1 | 107,307,841,536 |      
> > 109 
> > |                                                                           
> >                         
> > 432,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2008-07-19 03:07:29 |
> > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+-----
> >                                                                             
> >                  
> > ---------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> > 
> > Looks like it thinks friday2 was used, and wants friday3... is there any 
> > way to make it use friday2? if i purged it or?
> > 
> > This is the message I am getting:
> > 
> > 09-Aug 02:49 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "friday3" on Storage Device 
> > "LTO-3" (/dev/nst0) for Job server01.2008-08-08_23.00.01
> ----
> It doesn't want to use friday2 because it is marked 'Used' which means
> that it hit the limit of jobs and won't use it again until all other
> media is 'Used' and it becomes the oldest and the recycle period is
> reached.
> 
> If you want to use friday2 again, you can 'update' the volume and
> 'purge' it but that would delete all of the previous jobs on the tape.
> 
> If you want to continue using that volume while keeping the jobs on that
> tape, I think you will need to:
> 
> - Up the 'Maximum Volume Jobs' number on the pool
> - restart the storage daemon
> - 'update' the tape for the number of jobs
> - 'update' the tape and change the status from 'Used' to 'Append'
> 
----
Looking at this, I think you also need to restart the bacula-dir daemon
too

Craig


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