Hi I write my backups to LTO 7 tape. I have 3 sets of tapes which i rotate every month. I run one full backup at the start of the month and then incrementals for the rest of the month.
I've been running these jobs for a few months now and have never seen this problem. This month the full backups were running smoothly and had filled 11 tapes and then stopped with the following error nibbler-sd JobId 4139: Job eslab.2019-02-06_15.40.27_08 is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "Drive-1" (/dev/tapedrive1) Pool: Labs Media type: LTO-7 However when I run "list volume" in bconsole it shows that there are plenty of volumes available. Also I see no difference between the available volumes and the others 11 it was able to write to. Pool: Labs +---------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------+----------+---------------------+-----------+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | voltype | volparts | lastwritten | expiresin | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------+----------+---------------------+-----------+ | 2 | LAB002L7 | Full | 1 | 10,083,116,090,368 | 204 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 14 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-03 03:04:02 | 0 | | 3 | LAB003L7 | Full | 1 | 9,651,812,668,416 | 194 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 10 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-05 21:28:39 | 0 | | 4 | LAB004L7 | Full | 1 | 7,373,476,856,832 | 147 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 19 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-06 19:13:34 | 0 | | 5 | LAB005L7 | Full | 1 | 8,344,623,933,440 | 166 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 15 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-08 12:47:16 | 0 | | 6 | LAB006L7 | Full | 1 | 8,224,654,758,912 | 164 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 11 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-07 02:44:29 | 0 | | 7 | LAB007L7 | Full | 1 | 8,141,419,162,624 | 162 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 8 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-07 10:15:38 | 0 | | 8 | LAB008L7 | Full | 1 | 9,178,463,554,560 | 183 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 5 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-07 18:43:17 | 0 | | 9 | LAB009L7 | Full | 1 | 7,620,054,748,160 | 152 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-06 04:37:55 | 0 | | 11 | LAB001L7 | Full | 1 | 8,706,243,009,536 | 174 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 18 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-08 03:09:23 | 0 | | 13 | LAB010L7 | Full | 1 | 8,101,448,123,392 | 162 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 9 | 1 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-06 12:13:09 | 0 | | 14 | LAB011L7 | Full | 1 | 7,217,116,941,312 | 144 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-11-08 21:28:51 | 21,234 | | 15 | LAB012L7 | Full | 1 | 8,524,868,334,592 | 174 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-12-18 20:32:00 | 3,473,823 | | 16 | LAB013L7 | Full | 1 | 7,077,963,338,752 | 142 | 7,776,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-7 | 2 | 0 | 2018-12-21 23:10:57 | 3,742,560 | Its my understanding that if the value "expiresin" in is set to "0" then the backups should be able to use it (I appreciate there are other values such as ""recycle" that come into play but since these tape are being recycled for the nth time I dont see how they could be wrong). Any help much appreciated. Thanks
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