Hi all,
On Saturday morning, a backup job that was about to span to another volume
stopped. I then realised that it could not find any other volume to use.
But upon closer inspection:
1) It actually pruned volumes have expired ( 7 days ).
2) There were no jobs left on the volumes whose jobs have been pruned.
This was confirmed via the query command, and then selecting "List Jobs stored
for a given Volume name"
3) "list volumes" still shows that the status of the volume as "Append",
despite the fact that there are no more jobs left on the volume.
4) I then manually pruned some of the the volumes that were just pruned a few
minutes ago, and finally, these volumes were marked as Purged.
The problem seems to be a fluke, happened only once. This happened just after I
restarted bacula due to an error that jobs for several days have stopped
working,
because a tape got stuck in between its slot and the drive. In any case, I was
wondering if anyone else experienced this before.
Also, I can no longer produce the exact output that I did on Saturday. However,
here are some indication of the problem from the /var/bacula/working/log file:
*) You can see below jobs were pruned from several volumes:
23-Jul 10:27 syddbe220r-sd: End of medium on Volume "DailyPool-02"
Bytes=48,778,696,129 Blocks=756,119 at 23-Jul-2005 10:27.
23-Jul 10:28 syddbe220r-dir: Pruned 4 Jobs on Volume "DailyPool-01" from
catalog.
23-Jul 10:28 syddbe220r-dir: Pruned 4 Jobs on Volume "DailyPool-03" from
catalog.
23-Jul 10:28 syddbe220r-dir: Pruned 4 Jobs on Volume "DailyPool-04" from
catalog.
23-Jul 10:28 syddbe220r-dir: Pruned 4 Jobs on Volume "DailyPool-05" from
catalog.
23-Jul 10:28 syddbe220r-dir: Pruned 4 Jobs on Volume "DailyPool-06" from
catalog.
23-Jul 10:29 syddbe220r-dir: Pruned 5 Jobs on Volume "DailyPool-07" from
catalog.
*) .. but it then asked to put a new volume to write to, because it never
marked them as Purged:
23-Jul 10:29 syddbe220r-sd: Job syddb280r-sybdump.2005-07-23_08.00.00 waiting.
Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: StorEdge L7 DLT8000
Media type: DLT8000
Pool: DailyPool
*) After manually running pruning ( again! ) some of the volumes that were just
pruned above,
the volumes ( DailyPool-0[1,3,4] ) were then marked as Purged. I think I then
did an "unmount",
and then mtx unload and mtx load from the OS shell, and then did a mount:
23-Jul 11:27 syddbe220r-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
23-Jul 11:27 syddbe220r-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 2.
23-Jul 11:27 syddbe220r-sd: Recycled volume "DailyPool-01" on device
"/dev/rmt/1mbn", all previous data lost.
23-Jul 11:27 syddbe220r-sd: New volume "DailyPool-01" mounted on device
/dev/rmt/1mbn at 23-Jul-2005 11:27.
23-Jul 12:17 syddbe220r-sd: Writing spooled data to Volume. Despooling
16,894,251,634 bytes ...
*) Remember I manually pruned __some__ of the volumes that were just pruned ? I
did that on DailyPool-0[1,3,4].
Thus, the status of DailyPool-0[5-7] volumes were still "Full", despite the
fact that there were no jobs on these volumes anymore.
The log entry below finally shows that bacula marked them as Purged ... (
instead of marking them as Purged 2 days ago ):
25-Jul 09:57 syddbe220r-sd: End of medium on Volume "DailyPool-04"
Bytes=34,487,853,953 Blocks=534,598 at 25-Jul-2005 09:57.
25-Jul 09:57 syddbe220r-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume
"DailyPool-05". Marking it purged.
25-Jul 09:57 syddbe220r-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume
"DailyPool-06". Marking it purged.
25-Jul 09:57 syddbe220r-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume
"DailyPool-07". Marking it purged.
25-Jul 09:57 syddbe220r-dir: Recycled volume "DailyPool-05"
Regards,
John
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