Am 03.09.2018 um 16:52 schrieb Sebastian Suchanek: > Hi everyone, > > last night I encountered the following situation: a scheduled backup > started, using a certain backup pool (a set of tapes). From that pool, > Bacula (v7.4.4) selected an empty volume X, but since this was not in > the tapelibrary, Bacula kept asking for it. (Since I was ~250km away, I > couldn't do that.) However, another volume Y, which was also totally > empty, would have been available in the tapelibrary. > > Basically, I have two question about this: > 1. Why does Bacula prefer an empty volume which is not available over > another empty volume that would have been available?
Because Bacula's idea of available is different from yours or mine. :-) To sort out the specifics you'd have to share the precise state of the volumes involved at the time, which is probably not available anymore. > 2. Is there any way to sort of re-direct an already running job to > another (available) volume? What I do in similar situations is 1. purge the volume I want Bacula to use 2. update the volume status of the volume I don't want Bacula to use to "Used". Sometimes the process has to be repeated because Bacula would still recycle a different volume than the one I purged for it, but eventually, after re-setting all volumes to "Used" which Bacula chose, it will end up using the volume you want it to use. (Provided it is in the correct pool of course. You cannot tell a running job to use a different pool.) HTH Tilman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
