On 11/11/2010 12:13 PM, Philipp Storz wrote: > Am Donnerstag 11 November 2010, 17:50:06 schrieb John Drescher: >>> I have the following strange effect, which I think that it is not >>> correct, but I did not understand the acquiring code for a new volume >>> enough to find why this happens. >>> >>> Here is what I can reproduce: >>> >>> My configuration has two servers with a LTO3 Drive each. >>> >>> When I make a backup in server A and a restore of this backup on server B >>> I have the problem that I get this error Message: >>> >>> Fatal error: No Volume names found for restore. >>> >>> I found the following workaround: >>> >>> I simply make a small backup on server B on the tape that was written on >>> server A and now is mounted on server B. >>> This works like it should, and afterwards I can do my restore without >>> problems. >>> >>> Is there an explanation for this behaviour, or is this a bug and I should >>> do some deeper debugging? >>> >>> P.S.: All deamons are Bacula Version 5.0.3 on x86_64, SUSE, with >>> postgresql >>> >>> thanks and best regards, >> >> You need to better explain the problem. Are both servers directors? If >> so do they share a single database? > > Hello John, > > oh yes, you are right. I hope this explains it more precicely: > > I have 3 servers in total, > > server A and server B have a filedaemon and a storage daemon each, and server > C has a director that controls both server A and B. > > Here is a little ascii-art picture ;-) > > > Server A Server B > LTO3 Drive LTO3 Drive > Filedaemon Filedaemon > | | > -------------- > | > ServerC > Director > Catalog DB > > > Usually, every server makes backups on its own drive and restores from its own > drive, which works without problems. > > But when I try to make a restore on the other server, I have to make a little > backup first on the other storage/drive to be able to do a restore. > > It seems that somehow the director does not really understand that the correct > tape is already mounted, but it IS mounted. > > After doing a little backup on this tape, the director understands that the > tape is mounted there an then the restore just works like expected. > > As this works, I can tell that I have no problems with wrong media type etc. > > thank you for asking for more info, I hope this makes it clearer.
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