On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Bob Hetzel <b...@case.edu> wrote: > > > On 10/6/2010 4:01 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bob Hetzel<b...@case.edu> wrote: >>> >>>>>> Isnt it?supposed?to pull media from scratch pool? >>> >>> > >>>> >>>> I believe it will pull from the scratch pool if only if there are no >>>> acceptable volumes in the pool. CNH895 was an acceptable volume even >>>> though it was not in the changer so it picked that over grabbing one >>>> from the scratch. >>>> >>>> There may be some configuration setting to prevent bacula from wanting >>>> a volume that is not in the changer but I do not know. Some one else >>>> will have to help with that.. >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>> >>> In your Storage section of your bacula-dir.conf file, if you are using an >>> autochanger you need to specify 'Autochanger = yes' so bacula will check >>> the InChanger field when it works with media. >>> >> >> I have that but still get prompted (probably once every 3 months) for >> media that is not in the changer when the only available volumes are >> not in the changer. >> >> John > > Any chance the update slots command didn't get run or didn't inventory that > slot? If not then sounds like a bug. >
Nope. I always do update slots. What happens most is I have daily user backups that go to the UserBackups-LTO2 pool that has a 9 month (to 1 year) retention period. I pull out 3 to 5 Full volumes from this pool probably 1 to 3 from some other pools (that never recycle) and replace them with new tapes. These new volumes go to the Scratch Pool. After I insert the new volumes I do update slots twice. The reason for the second update slots is mtx returns 23 slots the first time after adding tapes with my changer. After a second an subsequent times it returns 24 slots again. Anyways after the update slots all of the tapes get 0 set to their slot and the in-changer flag also goes to 0. However when there are no available volumes in the UserBackups-LTO2 pool that are in the changer bacula will favor recycling volumes that are not in the changer versus volumes that are in the scratch pool. At least it has done that at minimum a dozen or so times over the last 4 to 6 years I have had the changer. This could have been fixed however. I was running 2.4.X for nearly 2 years with this behavior. And many other versions before that.. I did upgrade to 5.0.3 a few months ago but I can not remember if I have had this issue yet with 5.0.3. Although this issue did happen 2 or 3 times this year. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
