Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:08:12 -0800 


On Jan 4, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote:


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
Actually, the group I work for does genetics research. I think I may be one of the test subjects! : )
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...
Well, I thought I found the answer to this problem this afternoon. Apparently the InChanger flag was not set for a few of the volumes. Not sure why but I used update and set the flag to yes (1).
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.
Here I did an upgrade but had to do a downgrade back to V 1.36. I believe I have everything set up correctly but will check in the AM. Tonight, it looks as if Mutation0021 wont mount and thus the incrementals probably wont work. I got an early job's error msg tonight.
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



I'll double check this again in the morning.


        Thanks again

    John Hayden
    Systems Administrator
    Brigham & Women's Hospital - Genetics Division
    77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
    Boston, MA 02115
    617-525-4748






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