Hello, On 1/12/2007 10:03 AM, Ralf Winkler wrote: > 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.
But this should not affect the volume status, regarding InChanger and Slot information. In fact, I noticed Andrews problem myself, but that was quite a while ago. Anyway, the original description is detailed enough to make a good bug report at bugs.bacula.org IMO. Arno > On 1/11/07, *Andrew Fabian* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > <http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV> > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
