Alan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>A couple of my volumes have accumulated "Error" status, and so are not
>>being re-used. I've purged one of them and updated it's status to
>>Append, but Bacula then seemed to mark it 'Full' and didnt use it. I
>>then tried to re-label it with the same label, but that was rejected.
>>What's the correct procedure to make them re-usable?
>
>
> Purge the volumes and bacula will then mark them for recycling when it
> thinks appropriate.
>
> AB
Hm. I did just purge one of them at first, but bacula still didnt seem
to want to use it.
I have 3 tapes in an experimental setup in an autochanger, and the
config is set so that they are just used round-robin. This has been
happily cycling for some weeks, but two tapes got flagged with Error
status after I stopped bacula to add another tapedrive to the
autochanger. The third tape filled up and bacula blocked waiting for a
tape. I purged one of the Error-status ones, expecting bacula to use it,
but it didnt, so I then tried changing its status to Append, with the
result as mentioned above.
Since then I've discovered that simply setting its status to Full is
sufficient. Bacula then pruned it and proceeded to re-use it.
BTW, I had a bad time with 'purge'.
I went into bconsole, issued the 'purge' command, chose the 'volume'
option and expected to be prompted for a volume-name/media-id to purge.
This didnt happen - bacula proceeded to purge all the volumes and I had
to recover the catalog from its backup.
Cheers,
Terry
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