>>>>> On Wed, 04 May 2011 13:38:37 +1000, Philip Yarra said: > > On 03/05/11 00:00, John Drescher wrote: > > 2011/5/2 Philip Yarra<pya...@radoncvic.com.au>: > >> My bacula now seems to be firmly wedged, with all jobs trying to use the > >> same volume (and my config very definitely says to use each volume only > >> once). > >> > >> Scheduled Jobs: > >> Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume > >> =================================================================================== > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 wd-server-user-shares > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 em-fap-user-shares > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 rg-server-user-shares > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 ep-server-user-shares > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 fr-server-user-shares > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 rov-impac-1-tshome > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 zevon-home > >> Full-0179 > >> Incremental Backup 10 02-May-11 22:00 rov-citrix-cs-documents > >> Full-0179 > >> ==== > >> > >> Can anyone advise on how bacula has got wedged like this, and how I can fix > >> it? Help?? > >> > > Bacula does not really know what volume it will use till it actually > > starts the backup so the display will not take into account "Use > > volume once" or any other condition that limits the volume usage. > > That's right - normally it displays *unknown* in the column for volume, > and it gets a new volume allocated when the job runs. But in the case I > showed above, the upcoming jobs had been pre-allocated a volume, which > isn't normal. Also, they'd all been allocated the same one, which won't > work, as each volume can be used once only. > > Hence why I'm asking "how could this happen?" and "how do I fix it?"
It displays the first usable volume in the pool, without doing any pruning or creating any new volumes. It displays *unknown* when there are no usable volumes (e.g. they are all marked as Full or Used). So apparently Full-0179 was still available at that time. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
