On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:36, Steve Barnes wrote: > Hi List > > Getting a bit of a weird status message with my bacula (1.38.11). > Specifically, The Volume assigned to my next Scheduled Job is *unknown*. > > First, a bit of background. I needed to change the pool and volume > arrangements to ensure the daily job used only volumes it was supposed > to (no rocket science there); i appreciate my volume and pool setup is > probably more complicated that it needs to be. > > Previously I had, for example, Monday tapes for week 1 and 2 in the same > pool. Our daily backup recently spilled over onto 2 tapes and as a > result of my retention periods, bacula recycled the following weeks > Monday tape and asked for it to be inserted in order to continue the > backup. > > So, in an attempt to fix this, I have created different pools for > mon/tue/wed/.. week 1 and another pool for mon/tue/wed/.. week 2. > Reloading the config in bconsole returned no errors. However, bacula is > now showing (status dir) that this afternoon's backup job will use > *unknown* volumes...why?
Two reasons depending on the details of your setup: 1. Bacula is too stupid to figure it out. 2. Figuring out what will be the next Volume is too complex. > > I have restarted all services and even rebooted the box. I'm fairly sure > the schedule is correct in terms of what I want. For today I have > specified: > > Run = Level=Full Pool=Wed_Wk2_And_Wk4_Pool 2nd 4th wed at 4:00pm > > And the output from list volumes shows (formatted from its original > output to fit your screen): > > Wed_Wk2_And_Wk4_Pool: VolumeName: WED_WK2_AND_WK4_TAPE_00 : > VolStatus: Recycle > > I'm also seeing from `status dir' > > Device "HP-DLT-VS80-01" (/dev/nsa0) is mounted with > Volume="WED_WK2_AND_WK4_TAPE_00" Pool="*unknown*" > > What went wrong and how do I fix it so bacula with use > WED_WK2_AND_WK4_TAPE_00 for today? Nothing went wrong, Bacula just did not have the info. It will use the proper Volume when the job runs, providing your conf is correct. If I am not mistaken, Bacula version 2.0.x does a much better job of figuring out what the next tape will be ... > > Thank you! > > Steve. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
