Hi, Today I noticed an odd thing.
Bacula was blocked waiting for a tape, but plenty of satisfactory tapes were already in the changer. We had run update slots and mount earlier in the day, though there was no device in the drive when the mount command was issued. Both behaved norally. Here's what happened. Yesterday, we ran a differential backup to a tape. Today, that tape was removed from the changer, but was still set Appendable. Three never-before-used tapes were in the changer, had been labeled, and showed up as InChanger and in the proper slot and with the proper status in "list volumes". So this should have worked fine. But instead I got a message asking me to mount yesterday's volume on the storage device. I did an update volume and set yesterday's volume to used... then it said it was waiting for mount. I ran mount for the second time (remember I had already done that earlier), and then the backups started using one of the available volumes. Now, according to the released Bacula manual on the website, in the Automatic Volume Recycling, Recycling Algorithm (p. 303) of the PDF, the very first thing considered when looking for a new Volume is: "If the request is for an Autochanger device, look only for Volumes in the Autochanger (i.e. with InChanger set and that have the correct Storage device.)" And that was met. So why didn't Bacula use any of the empty Appendable tapes until I set the status of yesterday's volume to used? And why did I have to run mount a second time after doing that before the backup actually started? Thanks, -- John ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
