I suggest reporting the race condition and failed cleanup problems to https://bugs.bacula.org/ if not done already.
__Martin >>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:29:47 +0000, Clark, Patti via Bacula-users said: > > Sometimes I’ve had a BLOCKED device it has been due to a race condition in > Bacula between 2 jobs requesting different media for the same drive. > Usually it can be corrected by canceling one of the jobs. Other times it is > due to a “failed” job that is not cleaned up completely leaving a > reservation on a device. There is no job to cancel, but the status on your > autochanger will show its presence. The only solution that I’ve found in > this case is to stop the bacula-sd process that manages the devices in > question. A total pain if you have any jobs running. Anyway, it releases > the reservation and the bacula-sd process can be restarted and the device is > now available. Absolute worst case scenario is to reboot the storage > server. > > Patti Clark > Sr. Linux System Administrator > Oak Ridge National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
