Hi,
you can try to load the volume in the drive. Bacula notice that a usable
volume is mounted an should continue the job. This works in or
environment with a virtual disk changer and two virtual drives.
Greetings.
Sebastian
Am So 21.09.2008 22:04 schrieb Nils Blanck-Wehde
<nils.blanck-wehde AT backofficeservice DOT biz>:
> Hello everyone!
>
> If bacula doesn't find an appendable volume for a sheduled job (as
> described below), it will ask for one. Manually purging a tape from
> the
> according pool is possible but bacula does not seem to notice that
> there
> in fact is an appendable volume available now as long as the job is
> still waiting. However cancelling and re-running that job will make
> bacula flawlessly use the specific tape that was manually purged
> before.
> Is there something fundamental I am missing? Maybe some sort of
> command
> that makes bacula rescan the volume database vor appendable volumes?
>
> Is anyone else experiencing a similar behaviour?
>
> Thanks for any hint!
>
>
> Nils Blanck-Wehde schrieb:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > due to some additional "on-demand" backups, bacula ran out of
> > appendable
> > tape volumes in my autochanger.
> > How do I manually make bacula overwrite a specific tape?
> > I tried to set one volumes (CNV768) retention period to zero (update
> > volume) and then marked the volume "purged". Bacula still doesn't
> > want
> > to use the tape. Or at least I don't know how to make bacula
> > recognise
> > my changes.
> > Could someone please give me a quick instruction how to manually
> > recycle
> > (this might not be the technically correct term) i.e. "re-use" tapes
> > that would normally be unacceptable to bacula because of their
> > volume-retention-period?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> >
> > Nils
> >
> > Here are some definitions (hope it helps, please ask if you need
> > additional information):
> >
> > Pool {
> > Name = "Weekly_Full_Backup_to_DLT"
> > Pool Type = Backup
> > Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> > Volume Retention = 7 weeks
> > Recycle = yes
> > AutoPrune = yes
> > Cleaning Prefix = "CNV760"
> > }
> >
> > *list volumes pool=Weekly_Full_Backup_to_DLT
> >
> > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles
> > | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
> > LastWritten |
> >
> > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> > | 11 | CNV762 | Used | 1 | 34,671,587,328 | 35
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 2 | 1 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-08-09
> > 02:09:10 |
> > | 12 | CNV763 | Used | 1 | 35,272,452,096 | 36
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 3 | 1 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-08-17
> > 17:56:31 |
> > | 13 | CNV764 | Used | 1 | 36,074,013,696 | 37
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 4 | 1 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-08-23
> > 00:38:25 |
> > | 14 | CNV765 | Used | 1 | 37,091,884,032 | 38
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 5 | 0 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-08-30
> > 00:40:16 |
> > | 15 | CNV766 | Used | 1 | 38,143,623,168 | 39
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 6 | 0 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-09-06
> > 00:42:22 |
> > | 16 | CNV767 | Used | 1 | 39,072,789,504 | 40
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 7 | 0 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-09-13
> > 00:44:01 |
> > | 17 | CNV768 | Purged | 1 | 34,454,310,912 | 35
> > | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-08-08
> > 10:03:46 |
> > | 18 | CNV760 | Cleaning | 1 | 0 | 0
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 16 | 1 | | 0000-00-00
> > 00:00:00 |
> > | 163 | CNV761 | Used | 1 | 129,024 | 1
> > | 4,233,600 | 1 | 1 | 1 | DLT-VS1 | 2008-08-08
> > 23:34:29 |
> >
> > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> > *
> >
> > *status dir
> > company_bacula-dir Version: 2.4.2 (26 July 2008) i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > redhat
> > Daemon started 07-Aug-08 18:46, 232 Jobs run since started.
> > Heap: heap=3,743,744 smbytes=94,022 max_bytes=1,901,452 bufs=481
> > max_bufs=496
> >
> > Scheduled Jobs:
> > Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume
> >
> > ===================================================================================
> > Full Backup 10 21-Sep-08 19:00 nightly-self-backup
> > *unknown*
> > Full Backup 10 21-Sep-08 21:00 Daily Exchange Backup
> > *unknown*
> > Full Backup 10 21-Sep-08 21:00 Daily Lexware Backup
> > *unknown*
> > Full Backup 10 21-Sep-08 22:00 Daily Fileserver Backup
> > *unknown*
> > Full Backup 11 21-Sep-08 23:10 BackupCatalog *unknown*
> > ====
> >
> > Running Jobs:
> > JobId Level Name Status
> >
> > ======================================================================
> > 448 Full Fileserver_Lexware_Exchange_to_Tape.2008-09-19_23.30.08
> > is waiting for an appendable Volume
> > 449 Differe nightly-self-backup.2008-09-20_20.00.09 is waiting
> > execution
> > 450 Full Daily_Exchange_Backup.2008-09-20_21.00.10 is waiting
> > execution
> > 451 Full Daily_Lexware_Backup.2008-09-20_21.00.11 is waiting
> > execution
> > 452 Increme Daily_Fileserver_Backup.2008-09-20_22.00.13 is waiting
> > execution
> > 453 Full BackupCatalog.2008-09-20_23.10.14 is waiting execution
> > ====
> >
> > Terminated Jobs:
> > JobId Level Files Bytes Status Finished Name
> > ====================================================================
> > 438 Diff 112 298.7 M OK 18-Sep-08 20:01
> > nightly-self-backup
> > 439 Full 27 2.153 G OK 18-Sep-08 21:40
> > Daily_Exchange_Backup
> > 440 Full 1 112.9 M OK 18-Sep-08 21:45
> > Daily_Lexware_Backup
> > 441 Incr 65 203.7 M OK 18-Sep-08 22:01
> > Daily_Fileserver_Backup
> > 442 Full 1 188.7 M OK 18-Sep-08 23:11 BackupCatalog
> > 443 Diff 119 299.1 M OK 19-Sep-08 20:01
> > nightly-self-backup
> > 444 Full 27 2.107 G OK 19-Sep-08 21:41
> > Daily_Exchange_Backup
> > 445 Full 1 113.0 M OK 19-Sep-08 21:46
> > Daily_Lexware_Backup
> > 446 Incr 43 203.2 M OK 19-Sep-08 22:01
> > Daily_Fileserver_Backup
> > 447 Full 1 188.7 M OK 19-Sep-08 23:11 BackupCatalog
> >
> > ====
> > *
> >
> >
>
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