RE: [Bacula-users] Problem with File Storage

[Mentzell, Jon]

Title: RE: [Bacula-users] Problem with File Storage

Storage {
  Name = File
# Do not use "localhost" here
  Address = 10.100.102.118                # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
  SDPort = 9103
  Password = "password"
  Device = FileStorage
  Media Type = File
}



-----Original Message-----
From:   Ryan Novosielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Wed 3/15/2006 12:18 PM
To:     Mentzell, Jon
Cc:     bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:        Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with File Storage

And as for ripping a volume out from under it, show us your Storage def
for FileStorage. This one sounds fishy.

Mentzell, Jon wrote:
>
> Why are the volumes no longer appendable?  Perhaps you have set a
> volume size limit, or there is a default.
>
> - I'd love to know.  There's plenty of space on the disk physically,
> and I did not set any volume size limits.
>
> If I label a new volume, Bacula gets weird stating that I ripped a
> volume out from under it.  I'm not currently using pools, but I'm
> going to reconfigure to try to address that now.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Ryan Novosielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:   Wed 3/15/2006 12:05 PM
> To:     Mentzell, Jon
> Cc:     bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject:        Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with File Storage
>
> It's as simple as the e-mail says: there are no appendable volumes. As
> you're no doubt aware, Bacula uses files to simulate tapes on disk. Not
> sure how many you have in the pool, but at any rate, none of them are
> appendable. You'd want to check with list media to see what the statuses
> of the various volumes are. Exactly like in the error message, you'd
> want to create a new volume by using label.
>
> Why are the volumes no longer appendable? Perhaps you have set a volume
> size limit, or there is a default. Don't know, but hopefully with this
> information and the manual, you'll be able to work through it.
>
> Mentzell, Jon wrote:
> >
> > As a quick addendum, here's the error I get via email:
> >
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 29 01:05:05 2005
> > From: (Bacula) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Bacula: Intervention needed for Client1.2005-09-29_01.05.00
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:05:05 %z
> >
> > 29-Sep 01:05 obfuscated-sd: Job Client1.2005-09-29_01.05.00 waiting.
> > Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> > Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
> >     Storage:      FileStorage
> >     Media type:   File
> >     Pool:         Default
> >
>
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