On 03/10/14 14:24, Joanna Anthony wrote: > Hello, > > I recently removed all my tapes from my library and replaced them with > new tapes in order to send all of our current tapes off site. While most > of the tapes were full, a few were still were marked with an append > status. I ran update slots several times, labelled the new tapes with > their barcodes, and assigned all the new tapes to Scratch. > > According to the list media command none of the old tape are assigned to > a slot (Slot=0), and InChanger was set to 0 too. However, bacula still > keeps trying to use the old tapes that were marked as append. Since the > tapes are not there, bacula just blocks waiting for media, instead of > grabbing a tape from the scratch pool. > > For now I found a work around, where I manually mark all the tapes that > had an append status as full. Then I cancel, and restart the job. While > this works, it seems that bacula should only be trying to use tapes that > it knows are in the library. > > I had this problem before, but only in Scratch, I had a lot of tapes in > the Scratch pool, but that were not in the library. This happened after > I removed a few tapes in the scratch pool to make room for tapes that I > needed for a restore. When bacula needed a new tape, it would try to > move one of tapes not in the library from scratch into the appropriate > job pool. Again it would just block waiting for media that was not > available. I think in this case I set the enable flag to 0. > > I'm running version 5.2.13 on CentOS 6.4, with a quantum Scalar i40 25 > slot tape library, with 2 LTO5 drives. > > Anyone ever had this same problem, or know what might be causing this?
Joanna, We had a similar situation, but with file volumes on removable vchanger magazines. To work around this issue, we wrote a script to determine which magazine(s) were currently inserted, and then in the db, set the "Enabled" field to '1' for the available volumes, and set it to '0' for all other volumes. This script is vchanger and disk-based specific, but it might send you in the right direction. http://www.revpol.com/node/146 Hope it helps. -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
