Hi, 21.11.2007 19:09,, Shon Stephens wrote:: > John, > I appreciate your offer for continued assistance and no doubt > will need to make use of it. I hope I haven't burned too many bridges.
I don't think so... most of us here know how "frustration" is spellt ;-) > I'm going to take a break and let this sit for the weekend. Good thing, I think. > I'll take > the earlier suggestion to read the entire manual. I've been picking it > apart, but not ever read it like a book, so perhaps I've missed some > philosophical points that are very relevant. I wouldn't, actually, read it from front to end. As some of your frustration seems to come from using bconsole for everyday work on bacula, re-read the console command chapter first. You'll probably find that you stumble over some terms - then look at these in more detail. Regarding the - as far as I followed - main issue you have, namely that Bacula doesn't pick the volume that should be available for backups, just prepare to 1. Run some backups with close observation, and take notes or terminal output copies to be able to look back at what you actually did, and 2. look up the setdebug command. You might want to use something like 'setdebug dir level=200 trace=1' and 'setdebug sd=xxx level=400 trace=1' while tapes *should* be switched. The debug output might get long, but with some time you'll soon spot how Bacula tries to find a usable volume - and perhaps where and why it fails. Especially if you're a bit confused by how Bacula (tries to) work, just be ready to spend some time with it. Arno > > -Shon -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
