I would recommend that you simply change your naming scheme. If you call a tape "Monday" "Tuesday" etc. you will always be fighting bacula, because it doesn't understand the words and reuses tapes whenever it feels appropriate. So even though you may have fixed the Tuesday tape this week, next week may again be a problem.
In your example, actually bacula will be using the "Monday" tape again tomorrow - simply because that is the oldest backup. You could try and prune so the Wednesday tape becomes appendable first, but ultimately this will be a losing battle. You are much better off working with bacula rather than against it. Olaf Zevenboom wrote: > Update: > > Last night Bacula insisted on using volume "Bacula_Daily-Maandag-Tape". > I was able to manipulate it (can such actions be please documented by > samples in the manual?) so that it would use the proper volume, namely > "Bacula_Daily-Dinsdag-Tape". This resulted in the current media list: > > *list media > Pool: Default > No results to list. > Pool: Daily > +---------+-----------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | > VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | > MediaType | LastWritten | > +---------+-----------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | 1 | Bacula_Daily-Dinsdag-Tape | Used | 1 | > 9,861,691,392 | 11 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | > DDS-4 | 2009-02-11 00:46:34 | > | 2 | Bacula_Daily-Woensdag-Tape | Used | 1 | > 9,911,688,192 | 11 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | > DDS-4 | 2009-02-05 00:04:59 | > | 3 | Bacula_Daily-Donderdag-Tape | Used | 1 | > 9,929,106,432 | 11 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | > DDS-4 | 2009-02-06 00:07:28 | > | 5 | Bacula_Daily-Maandag-Tape | Used | 1 > | 1 | 0 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | > DDS-4 | 2009-02-03 00:04:08 | > +---------+-----------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > Pool: Weekly > +---------+--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | > VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | > MediaType | LastWritten | > +---------+--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | 4 | Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-1 | Full | 1 | > 1 | 0 | 1,641,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DDS-4 | > 2009-01-24 00:05:15 | > | 6 | Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-2 | Used | 1 | > 9,849,305,088 | 11 | 1,641,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | > DDS-4 | 2009-01-31 00:04:56 | > +---------+--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > Pool: Scratch > No results to list. > > So it looks like MediaID 5 and 4 are still troublesome and obviously > "Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-3" still does not exists. Also it is still > unclear for me why that did not happen and I suspect that if I do not > change the config (how/why) it will (not) happen again. Or is it a plain > bug? > > Olaf > > > John Drescher wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> I did not post "list media" output because I manually tried to fix >> thing using commands from bconsole to change the volume statuses to >> get things fixed. >> And failed in that.... >> So the current status is something to work from this point, not for >> error/problem analysis I am afraid. Sorry for that. >> Current output is: >> >> *list media >> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog >> Using Catalog "MyCatalog" >> Pool: Default >> No results to list. >> Pool: Daily >> +---------+-----------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ >> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | >> VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | >> MediaType | LastWritten | >> +---------+-----------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ >> | 1 | Bacula_Daily-Dinsdag-Tape | Used | 1 | >> 1 | 0 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DDS-4 >> | 2009-02-04 00:06:15 | >> | 2 | Bacula_Daily-Woensdag-Tape | Used | 1 | >> 9,911,688,192 | 11 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | >> DDS-4 | 2009-02-05 00:04:59 | >> | 3 | Bacula_Daily-Donderdag-Tape | Used | 1 | >> 9,929,106,432 | 11 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | >> DDS-4 | 2009-02-06 00:07:28 | >> | 5 | Bacula_Daily-Maandag-Tape | Recycle | 1 | >> 1 | 0 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DDS-4 >> | 2009-02-03 00:04:08 | >> +---------+-----------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ >> Pool: Weekly >> +---------+--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ >> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes >> | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType >> | LastWritten | >> +---------+--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ >> | 4 | Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-1 | Recycle | 1 | >> 1 | 0 | 1,641,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DDS-4 >> | 2009-01-24 00:05:15 | >> | 6 | Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-2 | Used | 1 | >> 9,849,305,088 | 11 | 1,641,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | >> DDS-4 | 2009-01-31 00:04:56 | >> +---------+--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ >> Pool: Scratch >> No results to list. >> You have messages. >> >> So basically mediaID 2,3,6 seem to be ok. The rest is borked up by now. >> >> Regards >> Olaf >> >> >> John Drescher wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Olaf Zevenboom <o...@artefact.nl> wrote: >> >> >> Dear list, >> >> Bacula : strange things happening at night >> >> After running successfully (besides weird verify issues) Bacula (2.4.1 >> on Debian Etch) has gone fubar. >> >> We have a single slot tapedrive with 2 schedules. Each session contains >> 3 jobs: full backup, verify, backup catalog >> There is a daily schedule (run on Monday-Thursday) (4 tapes) and a >> weekly schedule run on Fridays (3 tapes). All full backup using a single >> tape per day/session. >> >> A full cycle would consist of: >> daily cycle (4 days/tapes) >> weektape #1 >> daily cycle (recycling the 4 tapes) >> weektape #2 >> daily cycle (recycling the 4 tapes) >> weektape #3 >> And rerun the full cycle (recycling the 3 weektapes too) >> >> And at that point things did go horribly wrong: >> Bacula never created (auto label) weektape #3 but instead: >> - volume "Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-1" was set to recycle >> - Bacula wanted to write to that tape and not the blank tape (never >> used) in the drive (was meant to become "Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-3") >> This sounded strange to me as the retention time was 19 days and it was >> only 14 days after the volume Bacula requested was written to. >> Error report: Please mount Volume "Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-1" or label a >> new one >> >> As it was a very inconvenient moment for me at that time and I did not >> see a simple solution I deciced to kill all three running jobs. >> At this point I was under the impression that I had to look into the >> issue but that the other schedule would keep running. I was wrong. >> >> At Monday night I came across the following situation: >> - Three jobs started as scheduled >> - error report: waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use >> the "label" command to create a new Volume >> The correct (Monday) tape was inserted and mounted but for some reason >> the volume was not re-used although it this schedule cycle had already >> had been run 3 times successfully! >> Taking a closer look revealed: (running status all in bconsole) >> - according to the scheduling overview the jobs were executed to use the >> proper volumes >> - according to the running job it was looking for a volume without a name >> - the volume in use was the volume "Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-3". How >> strange! I canceled all jobs for the weekly (Friday) schedule on Sunday >> as that volume was never created and Bacula wanted to use volume >> "Bacula_Weekly-WeekTape-1" instead (see above). >> After some manual pruning and updating volumes suddenly Bacula wanted >> volume/tape Tuesday. At this time it was way beyond 00.00 so it actually >> was Tuesday but the jobs were executed to use volume/tape Monday. >> For some reason (it ran towards 03.00 am) I wanted some sleep and I >> decided to kill the scheduled jobs. After(!) I did this for some reason >> the verify job ran (although canceled) and reported many new file (my >> verify issue reported earlier). >> >> Either I am doing something terribly wrong or I ran into a serious bug I >> suppose. The in use volume looked a bit like a ghost job which I (and >> others as I saw on this list) have seen before. No idea how to get rid >> of these things besides restarting the director. Any suggestions on that >> subject please? >> >> If I am doing something wrong, can it be related to the use of a counter >> (which is not very well documented in the docs)? What am I doing wrong? >> >> I am quite stuck here. Please help >> >> >> >> Post the output of >> >> list media >> >> John >> -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Direct: 760-721-8339 Office: 866-642-7116 kke...@4nettech.com http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the unauthorized use or disclosure of the information is strictly prohibited. The information herein is intended only for use by the intended recipient(s) named above. 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