Andrew,
did you check the retention and usage time for the tape?
If you set them to the wrong time, you have to wait untill the retention
time is over before bacula use the tape again.
On 1/11/07, Andrew Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I could just not be sane, but this seems weird to me.
I'm using an autochanger with one drive, no barcode reader, and I'm
using bacula 2.0.0 and MySQL 5.0.20. I see this behavior:
1. I label a tape. (This isn't the strange part) Bacula loads the tape
from the specified slot and labels it. At this point Bacula knows that
that particular volume is in the changer, and lives in the specifed
slot. So it sets the Slot and InChanger fields appropiately. "list
volumes" confirms this.
2. A job runs and uses the new volume. It's not full yet, so it's
status is set to Append after the job finishes. But "list volumes" also
shows that InChanger is 0, and Slot is 0. I don't see why that would
change, since bacula never removed the tape from the drive, let along
have any reason to think it's been removed from the tape changer.
3. I use "mount" to load the tape from that slot (or any other slot with
a labeled tape). Bacula correctly fetches the tape and reads it's
label. Says so in the message log. This time it doesn't update the
database though, and the tape's InChanger and Slot fields aren't
touched. Seems to me like they should be.
4. Because of this weirdness, if I were to do something like run a job
to Tape 1, then pre-label Tape 2 and 3 with the label command,
subsequent jobs will start writing with Tape 2 and 3, and then bacula
will stop when it runs out of room, instead of using the free space it
should? be aware of locally on Tape 1.
Does this all make sense? Am I misunderstanding something about the
tape handling?
Thanks,
Andrew Fabian
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