Hello,
On 1/4/2006 4:57 PM, John Hayden wrote:
Arno,
Thanks again. Excellent explanation, especially getting through my
thick skull! (lol)
I see you're working in a medical institution - have you started your
career in radiology and still carry around the lead protection?
;-P
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
Hmm. Well, first, this is not exactly an error message, only a request
to the operator. Anyway, as long as that tape was available in the
autochanger, I would have expected it got mounted...
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.
It might be that you forgot an imprtant step during the upgrade: Not
only has the catalog to be upgraded, the SD configuration for
autochangers has to be modified, too. If you don't do that, your
autochanger won't work.
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.
Might simply be because the DIR now, after all the jobs ran, has already
pruned a volume from the pool it thinks it needs.
By the way - the jobs that ran that day probably all went to the same
tape, right? If they did, and no autochanger operations were necessary,
I suspect you simply have to modify your SD configuration. For one
drive, one autochanger, this takes about 5 minutes including the
necessary backup of the file, careful thought, and assuming you've got
the relevant manual page open... and don't forget to restart the SD
afterwards!
Arno
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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Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de
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