I had this problem the other day, even tho I do have automatic volume
recycling, which has always worked in the past. I had to purge one of the
expired volumes to get it to accept it...

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 10:51, Radosław Korzeniewski <
rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> śr., 6 lut 2019 o 16:15 byron <lbgpub...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> The volume has to be in Append, Purge or Recycle status for Bacula to use
> it. All your volumes have a Full status and Bacula cannot use them.
>
> In your case it is very plausible that you do not setup an automatic
> volume recycling, so you have to do it manually.
>
> best regards
> --
> Radosław Korzeniewski
> rados...@korzeniewski.net
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