For the record, Bacula has spoiled me. Completely and totally. I've been running it at home, and have it installed at on a charity's servers. It's been running very nicely everywhere for over a year.
I discovered something odd this weekend during my home networks normal scheduled full backups. I've got a pair of DEC TZ887 7 slot DLT-4000 tape libraries (relabelled Quantum 4700s) connected to a SuSE Linux 10.0 server running the Director, Storage and File daemons. As a side note, clients are also SuSE 10.0 and Windows 2000. Currently, I'm on Bacula 2.0.2 on all systems except for one of the Win2k clients which is at 2.0.3. The issue I ran into is in the next volume selection logic. Thursday, I made sure that I cycled tapes in that were ready to be recycled or purged, with the exception of the first slot which was appendable. When the full backup began, it started with the appendable volume in the magazine. Since then, rather than choosing an available volume that was already loaded, it's asking for another volume in the pool that is marked as recyclable. The volume that it's asking for is lexically the lowest named (purged or recycled) volume in the pool, and coincidentally, is has the oldest lastwritten timestamp. I've been manually unmounting the storage, loading up the next slot/cartridge, and mounting the storage again. The Storage daemon is happily accepting the mount, and proceeds to immediately begin writing to the volume. Does it not make sense to utilize a volume that's currently available in the autochanger, rather than some available volume outside the changer? I should probably point out that the tape libraries have passed the btape tests with flying colors. It's also entirely possible that I've got a bad configuration somewhere. Rather than chew up bandwidth with the email, see http://70.101.157.224/bacula.tgz for my configuration files and the last few lines of bacula.log showing the error messages. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Jeff Kalchik -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/751 - Release Date: 4/7/2007 10:57 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
