Hi,

05.11.2007 23:08,, Elie Azar wrote::
> Hi,
> 
> I created an LVM disk, made up of 2x500GB hard drives, and I made the 
> necessary changes in the bacula conf files to be able to send jobs to 
> that new storage. Here are some of the configuration changes.
> 
> My problem is that I cannot send multiple jobs to backup simultaneously. 
> the first job starts, then I get an error on each subsequent job. I 
> dont' know if I'm missing something in my configuration, or I still need 
> to do something to get the LVM disk properly installed in bacula, or 
> something else... I'm not sure.
> 
> I have the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20" in the Storage and the Client 
> directives, and I have it setup to 80 in the Director directive, in the 
> bacula-dir.conf file; and also in the Storage directive in the 
> bacula-sd.conf file.
> 
> It seems to be requesting the same volume, BLVPool13-BLV01-V0003 in this 
> case, which is being used by the previous job. I would expect it to be 
> getting the next available volume. Is there something that I'm not 
> seeing...

Yup... see below.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Elie Azar
> 
> 
...
> # 13 day BLV pool definition
> Pool {
>  Name = BLVPool13
>  Pool Type = Backup
>  Recycle = yes                                       # Bacula can 
> automatically recycle Volumes
>  AutoPrune = yes                                # Prune expired volumes
>  Volume Retention = 13 days           # 13 days
>  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1            # one job per volume

You allow only one job per Volume.

>  LabelFormat = "${Pool}-${MediaType}-V${NumVols:p/4/0/r}"
> }

You either need another storage device, or have to allow more than one 
job per volume.

> *mes
> 05-Nov 13:38 coal-dir JobId 13667: Start Backup JobId 13667, 
> Job=Linux2-Test1.2007-11-05_13.38.10
> 05-Nov 13:38 coal-dir JobId 13667: There are no more Jobs associated 
> with Volume "BLVPool13-BLV01-V0003". Marking it purged.
> 05-Nov 13:38 coal-dir JobId 13667: All records pruned from Volume 
> "BLVPool13-BLV01-V0003"; marking it "Purged"
> 05-Nov 13:38 coal-dir JobId 13667: Recycled volume "BLVPool13-BLV01-V0003"
> 05-Nov 13:38 coal-dir JobId 13667: Using Device "BLV01"
> 05-Nov 13:38 coal-sd JobId 13667: Fatal error: Cannot recycle volume 
> "BLVPool13-BLV01-V0003" on device "BLV01" (/backups/autofs/BLV01/bacula) 
> because it is in use by another job.

This error message is quite clear, I think... there was only this 
volume that could be used, but it's in use currently, and so can't be 
recycled.

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
www.its-lehmann.de

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