Dan, On your Virtual Autochanger, you are doing two things different from what I have always done, which could potential create problems for you. The two directives that you should remove from your Virtual Autochanger Device definitions are:
AlwaysOpen = yes RemovableMedia = yes Best regards, Kern On 08/24/2015 02:24 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > I recently started using the Virtual Autochanger as described in 'Best > Practices for Disk Based Backup' [1] > > It is working for me, but I encountered a problem with the audo-label process. > > My bacula-sd.conf and the full transcript of the logging problem is at: > > https://gist.github.com/dlangille/ef858722b30ae182b40f > > Ideas? > > A job stalled with: > > 24-Aug 01:43 crey-sd JobId 215534: Job dent.2015-08-24_00.58.35_01 is > waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. > > I amended the pool definition to allow more Volumes, then went back to > bconsole, expecting a mount command to create & label a new volume. > > > *mount > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: CreyFile > 2: CompaqStorageWorksTapeLibrary > Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 > Connecting to Storage daemon CreyFile at crey.int.unixathome.org:9103 ... > Enter autochanger drive[0]: > Enter autochanger slot: > 3999 Device "VirtualDisk" not found or could not be opened. > * > > Then I tried label: > > > *label > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: CreyFile > 2: CompaqStorageWorksTapeLibrary > Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 > Enter autochanger drive[0]: 2 > Enter new Volume name: . > You have messages. > *m > 24-Aug 01:45 bacula-dir JobId 215534: Created new Volume="DiffAuto-4861", > Pool="DiffFile", MediaType="File" in catalog. > 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device > "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: > ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not > open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No > such file or directory > > 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device > "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: > ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not > open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No > such file or directory > > 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device > "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: > ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not > open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No > such file or directory > > 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device > "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: > ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not > open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No > such file or directory > > *m > 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device > "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: > ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not > open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No > such file or directory > > Eventually, I again tried mount: > > > mount > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: CreyFile > 2: CompaqStorageWorksTapeLibrary > Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 > Enter autochanger drive[0]: > Enter autochanger slot: > 3999 Device "VirtualDisk" not found or could not be opened. > You have messages. > *m > 24-Aug 01:54 crey-sd JobId 215534: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume > "DiffAuto-4861" on file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) > 24-Aug 01:54 crey-sd JobId 215534: New volume "DiffAuto-4861" mounted on > device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) at 24-Aug-2015 01:54. > * > > > [1] - http://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf > — > Dan Langille > http://langille.org/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
