I did forget to mention that all my tapes are labeled using "label
barcode".
Thanks
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Romer Ventura
On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote:
On 10/27/10 12:23, Romer Ventura wrote:
Hello,
Recently i've been having a lot of problems when replacing tapes.
For example: i put in 8 tapes into scratch pool, then each job pulls
tapes from there into their respective pools, then when the month
goes
by and i replace the tapes with 8 new tapes, bacula still wants to
use
the tapes i removed even when i do update slots, and indicate
Autochanger = yes on the config.
So what can i do to ensure that when i replace the tapes, the new
tapes are actually used instead of getting the error "manual mount
might
be required".
Hi Romer (OOPS! I wrote a whole reply before noticing that you have
run the
update slots command) I'll leave my original reply below this one,
because it
may help someone else with a similar issue, but I suspect your
problem is
that you are not labeling your tapes by their barcodes.
If your changer supports barcodes, you need to use the "label
barcodes"
command in which case Bacula will ask a couple question (which pool
etc) and
will then cycle each tape into the drive, label it by its barcode
and put it
back into its slot in the changer.
You can not label them with human friendly names, since Bacula will
query the
changer for the barcodes of the tapes in the slots and the changer
does not
know about the human readable labels that may have been manually
written to
the tapes.
BTW, you can do a list media to see what tapes bacula thinks are in
which
slots. Look at the "Slot" and "In Changer" columns to confirm that
Bacula
knows where your tapes are.
Hope this helps.
--
Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC
--[original reply when I thought your question was differnt :) ]--
The command you are looking for is "update slots"
As long as your tapes have bar codes on them, and they have been
labeled with
the "label barcodes" command, the update slots command will update
the media
database so that bacula knows which tape is currently in the
changer and in
which slot each tape resides.
What I do is create an "Update Slots" job that is configured to run
at the
same time as my nightly backups but with a higher priority so it
always runs
first. This way I never really have to remember to manually run
the update
slots command unless I need to run a restore or backup job manually
after
media replacement, and before the nightly jobs run.
The Update Slots job def looks like this:
--[snip]--
# ----------------
# # Update Slots Job
# # ----------------
Job {
Name = UpDateSlots
Client = None
Type = Admin
FileSet = None
Storage = c0
Schedule = WeeklyToOffsiteDisk
Messages = Standard
Priority = 8
SpoolData = no
Pool = Default
RunScript {
RunsWhen = Before
RunsOnClient = no
Fail Job On Error = no
Command = "/usr/local/sbin/runbefore-updateslots.sh"
}
}
--[snip]--
and /usr/local/sbin/runbefore-updateslots.sh looks like this:
--[snip]--
#!/bin/bash
#
BC="/usr/sbin/bconsole"
CONF="/etc/bacula/include/bconsole-SITENAME.conf"
STORAGE="c0"
$BC -c $CONF << EOF
update slots storage=$STORAGE
quit
EOF
--[snip]--
Hope this helps.
--
Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC
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