Hello,

We are running Bacula 7.0.5 on CentOS 7.0. This weekend, one of our full stores blocked waiting on a tape. However I was trying to enjoy the nice Chicago weather and trying not to think about work, so needless to say our backup failed.

Starngely, we have another tape that SHOULD be available. Tapes in this pool are set to recycle after 90 days, and 90 days ago from today is May 4th.

​ We have a tape that was last written to on March 28. So why would Bacula block on the unavailable tape? Can I set it to fail and move on if a tape is not available? I will never be able to satisfy Bacula over the weekend- I would rather it fail than hold everything up.

Thanks. ​Here's some Bacula queries; first my client entry from bacula-dir.conf:
Client {
  Name = fscluster2-backup
...
  File Retention = 3 months
  Job Retention = 3 months
  AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
​

​ Here's what status jobs says:​

Device "HP_LTO-3" (/dev/nst0) is not open.
    Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume "EPW681L3",
       Pool:        Tape
       Media type:  LTO-3
    Drive 0 is not loaded.
==

​ ...​

Used Volume status:
Reserved volume: EPW681L3 on tape device "HP_LTO-3" (/dev/nst0)
    Reader=0 writers=1 reserves=0 volinuse=0
====

​ But list media shows a volume in the changer which was last written to on March 28; much older than 90 days. Why didn't Bacula use it?​

*list media
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
Pool: Tape
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
|      16 | EPW680L3   | Full      |       1 | 557,867,971,584 |      145 |    7,776,000 |       1 |    1 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2015-03-28 07:11:04 |
|      17 | EPW681L3   | Recycle   |       1 |               1 |        0 |    7,776,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO-3     | 2015-04-25 08:08:59 |

​ ...​

|      46 | EPW692L3   | Full      |       1 | 532,896,215,040 |      163 |    7,776,000 |       1 |    2 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2015-08-01 09:13:24 |
|      47 | EPW693L3   | Full      |       1 | 420,250,650,624 |      105 |    7,776,000 |       1 |    8 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2015-08-01 11:55:27 |

​ ...​

|      68 | ERX840L3   | Full      |       1 | 508,789,241,856 |      130 |    7,776,000 |       1 |    5 |         1 | LTO-3     | 2015-07-25 10:08:25 |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

*status slots
Automatically selected Storage: LTO-3

​ ...​

3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
 Slot |   Volume Name    |   Status  |     Media Type       |      Pool          |
------+------------------+-----------+----------------------+--------------------|
    1 |         EPW680L3 |      Full |                LTO-3 |               Tape |
    2 |         EPW692L3 |      Full |                LTO-3 |               Tape |
    3 |         EPW732L3 |    Append |                LTO-3 |           WORM-CRM |
    4 |         EPW730L3 |    Append |                LTO-3 |           WORM-CRM |
    5 |         ERX840L3 |      Full |                LTO-3 |               Tape |
    6 |         EPW733L3 |    Append |                LTO-3 |        WORM-Onsite |
    7 |         EPW729L3 |    Append |                LTO-3 |        WORM-Onsite |
    8 |         EPW693L3 |      Full |                LTO-3 |               Tape |

- Mike Schwager

  Linux Network Engineer, Mocho Trading LLC

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