good day all, looks like my bacula repeated this issue for me. i needed a tape for the catalog backup which goes into the default pool, i did not like any of the volumes in the default pool and pulled in four empty tapes from the scratch pool, and did not find any of them acceptable. media list is now:
Pool: Default +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 1 | 002048L4 | Append | 1 | 393,860,146,176 | 449 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 2 | 0 | LTO4 | 2008-03-14 17:36:03 | | 29 | 012476L4 | Append | 1 | 131,792,467,968 | 140 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 29 | 0 | LTO4 | 2008-04-03 23:33:41 | | 45 | 020784L4 | Append | 1 | 1,276,820,858,880 | 1,353 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | LTO4 | 2008-12-02 01:02:51 | | 49 | 020780L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 14 | 1 | LTO4 | | | 50 | 020742L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 15 | 1 | LTO4 | | | 51 | 023304L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 21 | 0 | LTO4 | | | 52 | 023303L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 22 | 0 | LTO4 | | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ Pool: Scratch No results to list. yet still pends the backup with: 05-Dec 06:14 molbio-sd JobId 1989: Job BackupCatalog.2008-12-04_23.10.13 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "LTO4" (/dev/nst1) Pool: Default Media type: LTO4 the default pool definition looks like this. not had any problem with it until after my upgrade to 2.4.3. Pool { Name = Default Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes Volume Retention = 365 days # one year } -- michael bacula is: ./bconsole Connecting to Director molbio:9101 1000 OK: molbio-dir Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008) Enter a period to cancel a command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users