---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] About selection of volumes To: dbare...@gmx.net
2009/3/30 Daniel Bareiro <daniel-lis...@gmx.net>: > Hi all! > > During the last process of backup scheduled by Bacula, I received the > following notification by email. > > 30-Mar 08:27 backup1-sd: Please mount Volume "EducarFull0004" on Storage > Device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0) for Job Cygnus.2009-03-28_00.00.19 > > Reviewing the state of the volumes, I found the following situation: > > Pool: Full > +---------+----------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | > VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | > +---------+----------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | 1,036 | EducarFull0002 | Append | 31,702,518,884 | 44 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 2 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-05-13 22:26:53 | > | 1,038 | EducarFull0001 | Purged | 34,189,164,863 | 50 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-04-07 00:48:17 | > | 1,039 | EducarFull0003 | Purged | 38,584,790,717 | 69 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 3 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-05-04 23:32:04 | > | 1,042 | EducarFull0005 | Purged | 34,119,283,723 | 66 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-08-04 00:01:13 | > | 1,043 | EducarFull0006 | Purged | 35,871,291,720 | 44 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 2 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-09-08 01:28:55 | > | 1,046 | EducarFull0009 | Purged | 38,888,730,357 | 77 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 3 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-09-07 22:56:25 | > | 1,047 | EducarFull0004 | Append | 18,302,518,203 | 43 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-11-18 00:23:00 | > | 1,048 | EducarFull0007 | Purged | 38,663,188,669 | 69 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 2 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-11-02 00:39:19 | > | 1,049 | EducarFull0008 | Purged | 33,354,768,116 | 39 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 3 | 0 | DLT-7000 | 2008-11-02 03:03:03 | > | 1,050 | EducarFull0010 | Full | 35,826,198,945 | 62 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | DLT-7000 | 2009-03-28 01:26:49 | > | 1,051 | EducarFull0011 | Full | 34,782,209,484 | 62 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | DLT-7000 | 2009-03-01 01:12:40 | > | 1,052 | EducarFull0012 | Full | 43,395,971,463 | 52 | > 7,776,000 | 1 | 3 | 1 | DLT-7000 | 2009-03-01 03:44:33 | > +---------+----------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > > Apparently Bacula is wanting to use a volume that is not in autochanger and > whose state is Append when being all the volumes in autochanger in Full > state. I suppose that changing manually the state of some volume in > autochanger to Purged, the backup process would be resumed, is it correct? > No. You need to either give it the volume it asks for or Purge a volume in the changer and then issue a mount on the changer. > But I consider that this does not assure that this situation appears again. > > In such case, what you recommend to me to avoid that it returns to happen? > It would help to take advantage of this moment to now do a change of tapes > putting oldest and putting to all these tapes in autochanger in Purged > state so that they are recycled? > When this happens I usually swap out a few of the newest volumes with a few of the oldest volumes and bacula will be happy for months. John -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
