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?
    
          

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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
      

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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'

    

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Looking at this, I think you also need to restart the bacula-dir daemon
too

Craig


  

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