Arno,

Thanks again. Excellent explanation, especially getting through my thick skull! (lol) Although I am making progress, I am still having some issues. Last night, my incremental worked except those that were blocked by the catalog backup that did not work. After I cancelled the catalog backup, which by definition is a full backup, the rest of the incrementals completed. The catalog backup produced this error message:

04-Jan 03:11 rosalind-dir: Start Backup JobId 3178, Job=BackupCatalog. 2006-01-04_01.10.00 04-Jan 03:12 rosalind-sd: Please mount Volume "Chromosome0021" on Storage Device "GeneSplicer" for Job BackupCatalog.2006-01-04_01.10.00 04-Jan 04:12 rosalind-sd: Please mount Volume "Chromosome0021" on Storage Device "GeneSplicer" for Job BackupCatalog.2006-01-04_01.10.00 04-Jan 06:12 rosalind-sd: Please mount Volume "Chromosome0021" on Storage Device "GeneSplicer" for Job BackupCatalog.2006-01-04_01.10.00 04-Jan 10:12 rosalind-sd: Please mount Volume "Chromosome0021" on Storage Device "GeneSplicer" for Job BackupCatalog.2006-01-04_01.10.00

GeneSplicer is my tape changer and Chromosome0021 is an existing tape in append mode. Here is a partial output of list volumes showing this:

| 102 | Chromosome0016 | Full | 258,084,262,555 | 268 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 3 | 1 | SDX700-C | 2005-12-12 17:37:57 | | 107 | Chromosome0021 | Append | 2,328,594,402 | 3 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 8 | 1 | SDX700-C | 2005-12-28 18:18:46 | | 126 | Chromosome0015 | Purged | 0 | 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | SDX700-C | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | +---------+----------------+-----------+-----------------+---------- +--------------+---------+------+-----------+----------- +---------------------+

Apparently, the system could/would not mount Chromosome0021. I am able to move these tapes around from the command line, so it appears as if I have introduced something into bacula. This was working before I went through the 1.38 upgrade and then 1.36 retrograde.


You might find the next bit of information amusing or confusing (I love little rhymes). This morning, after the incrementals had finished, I did a sta dir and here is the output:

Scheduled Jobs:
Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume ======================================================================== =========== Incremental Backup 10 04-Jan-06 14:00 MarthasVaio Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 01:05 cerebellum Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 01:05 cerebellum2 Mutation0021 Full Backup 11 05-Jan-06 01:10 BackupCatalog Chromosome0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 01:15 rozAlan Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 03:05 rozMartha Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 theBrain Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Unagi Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 AlansIMac Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 AlansG5 Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Xavier Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Dazzler Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Jubilee Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Colossus Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Phoenix Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 BigAmmG4 Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 AmLabG4 Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 rozDick Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 rozDavid Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 rozKaren Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 rozShamil Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 rozEtc Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 financial Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 Rolfs Mutation0021 Incremental Backup 10 05-Jan-06 04:05 life Mutation0021
====

Running Jobs:
No Jobs running.
====

Terminated Jobs:
JobId  Level     Files      Bytes     Status   Finished        Name
========================================================================
3176 Incr 45,271 39,278,357,419 OK 04-Jan-06 03:02 cerebellum 3180 Incr 3 12,846,592 OK 04-Jan-06 03:05 rozMartha 3177 Incr 1,074 1,837,188,473 OK 04-Jan-06 03:10 cerebellum2 3178 Full 0 0 Cancel 04-Jan-06 10:28 BackupCatalog 3184 Incr 0 0 OK 04-Jan-06 10:29 rozKaren
  3186  Incr      2,216    373,270,959 OK       04-Jan-06 10:32 rozEtc
3185 Incr 0 0 OK 04-Jan-06 10:36 rozShamil 3183 Incr 282 703,254,517 OK 04-Jan-06 10:36 rozDavid
  3182  Incr        713  1,480,840,333 OK       04-Jan-06 10:42 rozDick
3181 Incr 51,667 1,948,459,139 OK 04-Jan-06 10:44 theBrain

Notice how the "unknowns" have disappeared. This is what had me confused before. This is what I was used to seeing. Not sure why this happened but I'm happy seeing my old responses.

        Thanks again

        John Hayden

On Jan 3, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote:

Hi,

On 1/3/2006 11:15 PM, John Hayden wrote:
Arno,
    If that is expected behavior,

Expected behaviour... well, it's what I got used to. Usually, I'd expect a new volume to start with status unused or purged, but append is kind of... funny.


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