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 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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