Hello,
On 20.10.2005 12:40, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
....today the LTO was mounted and device BLOCKED waiting for appendable
media..........
I unmounted, remounted many times and still blocked. But Mount was not
telling me what tape was inside (the label).
So I unmounted.
Used btape to see the label on the tape. It was correct........
So I canceled any waiting job.
Stopped bacula and restarted.
Used mount, and I got the mount answer saying what label was on
tape........ ????? why???
...etc. pp.
Unfortunately, the inormation you can give is probably not enough to
determine the reasone for that behaviour.
It There seem to be two problems you have. First one, in my opinion, is
that you use a too complicated volume management. (At least for me - I
wouldn't want to handle pools for each weekday.)
Second, there *might* be some problems with your tapes, drive, or even
the SD. To analyze this, I would suggest to set up a test scenarion -
only use one pool, two tapes, no scheduled jobs at first. Run director
and SD with debug output, and try to follow their actions when a tape is
requested, what happens when the SD mounts a tape, and see if the SD can
read that tape.
(I assume you did run the complete btape test suite...)
Then I tried to re run a job by hand.....still waiting for appendable media.
Canceled the job again.
Purged the volume by hand.
Re run the job, and finally I got the job running.......why do I have to
purge the volume?!?!?!
obviously because the tape was consiered Used. this means that your
retention times don't work as you want them, which usually indicates you
set it up incorrectly, didn't understand what you set up, or didn't
update the existing volume information in the catalog after a change to
the pool defaults.
The "list volumes" before doing purge was:
| 17 | MERCOLEDI | Used | 94,444,831,817 | 98 |
28,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO | 2005-10-13 01:03:42 |
Arno
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