Hi! This night I noticed (again...) a strange behaviour: The jobs running span four or five tapes. The first one, m01, was filled; then tape m02 (state: purged) should have been requested. What happens is that bacula (1.38.9) apparently can't decide what it wants: >From the log:
02-Jun 19:46 mail-sd: End of Volume "m01" at 46:1024 on device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Write of 64512 bytes got -1. 02-Jun 19:47 mail-sd: Re-read of last block succeeded. 02-Jun 19:47 mail-sd: End of medium on Volume "m01" Bytes=45,208,703,408 Blocks=700,782 at 02-Jun-2006 19:47. 02-Jun 19:47 mail-dir: Recycled volume "m02" 02-Jun 19:47 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 02-Jun 19:53 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 02-Jun 20:48 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 02-Jun 22:25 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 02-Jun 22:25 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 02-Jun 22:36 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 02-Jun 22:36 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 02-Jun 22:51 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 02:55 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 04:27 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 03-Jun 04:27 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 05:54 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 03-Jun 05:54 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 08:57 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 03-Jun 08:57 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m01" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 10:39 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 03-Jun 10:39 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m01" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 11:04 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m02" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 13:47 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). Current Volume "m01" not acceptable because: 1998 Volume "m01" status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. 03-Jun 13:47 mail-sd: Please mount Volume "m01" on Storage Device "DLT" (/dev/nst0) for Job taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 03-Jun 18:12 mail-sd: taos.2006-06-02_14.45.03 Warning: Director wanted Volume "m02" for device "DLT" (/dev/nst0). and so on... When m02 was inserted, it was recycled and used without complaint. The llist output for those two tapes (as of now, backup has progressed somewhat): MediaId: 25 VolumeName: m01 Slot: 0 PoolId: 4 MediaType: DLT-8000 FirstWritten: 2006-06-02 14:45:02 LastWritten: 2006-06-02 19:46:55 LabelDate: 2006-06-02 14:45:02 VolJobs: 3 VolFiles: 47 VolBlocks: 700,781 VolMounts: 3 VolBytes: 45,208,638,896 VolErrors: 0 VolWrites: 1,416,914 VolCapacityBytes: 0 VolStatus: Full Recycle: 1 VolRetention: 3,888,000 VolUseDuration: 604,800 MaxVolJobs: 0 MaxVolFiles: 0 MaxVolBytes: 0 InChanger: 1 EndFile: 23 EndBlock: 4,393 VolParts: 0 LabelType: 0 StorageId: 1 MediaId: 26 VolumeName: m02 Slot: 0 PoolId: 4 MediaType: DLT-8000 FirstWritten: 2006-06-02 14:51:27 LastWritten: 2006-06-06 09:39:27 LabelDate: 2006-06-02 14:51:27 VolJobs: 1 VolFiles: 13 VolBlocks: 215,309 VolMounts: 2 VolBytes: 13,890,013,961 VolErrors: 0 VolWrites: 930,109 VolCapacityBytes: 0 VolStatus: Append Recycle: 1 VolRetention: 3,888,000 VolUseDuration: 604,800 MaxVolJobs: 0 MaxVolFiles: 0 MaxVolBytes: 0 InChanger: 1 EndFile: 12 EndBlock: 15,499 VolParts: 0 LabelType: 0 StorageId: 1 Perhaps this is some interference with the Use Duration? MfG, Ulrich -- Heinz Ulrich Stille / Tel.: +49-541-9400473 / Fax: +49-541-9400450 design_d gmbh / Wilhelmstr. 16 / 49076 Osnabrück / www.design-d.de _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users