Did you have any other backups running at the same time as jobid 5738? It looks like it didn't find a device to read the previous backups.
__Martin >>>>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:22:04 +0000, "Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia said: > > Hi all, > > I am using bacula v 9.4.4 on Centos 6.4. for disk file based backup. > > The backup scheme is weekdays incremental and virtual full back-up on Sunday. > > Job { > Name = "blhwsync11" > Max Virtual Full Interval = 7 days > Accurate = no # With Accurate = yes, even file deletions, move etc > are covered in differential/incremental backup > ##Backups To Keep = 3 # default = 0, means all incremental backups till > the VirtualFull are consolidated > DeleteConsolidatedJobs = yes > JobDefs = "blhwsync11" > RunBeforeJob = "/opt/bacula/srpg/scripts/validate_testbed.sh blhwsync11" > } > > Things were running fine till the interval between the last virtual full back > up job and the current incremental job was less than Max Virtual Full > Interval = 7 days > > When this interval exceeded Max Virtual Full Interval = 7 days ; for an > incremental backup, bacula tried to create a new virtual full backup by > consolidating the latest virtual full backup and all subsequent incremental > backups (...fair enough this is as expected) > But while consolidating the jobs ; it gave error : > > 10-Jan 13:53 bacula-server-dir JobId 5737: shell command: run AfterJob > "/opt/bacula/srpg/scripts/send_fail_mail.sh 5737 > blhwsync11.2020-01-10_13.53.18_22 sas-backup-ad...@list.nokia.com" > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir > JobId 5738: No prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing Virtual > FULL backup. > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: shell command: run BeforeJob > "/opt/bacula/srpg/scripts/validate_testbed.sh blhwsync11" > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: Start Virtual Backup JobId 5738, > Job=blhwsync11.2020-01-10_13.54.16_04 > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: Warning: This Job is not an > Accurate backup so is not equivalent to a Full backup. > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: Consolidating > JobIds=4739,5004,5216,5389 > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: Found 43700 files to consolidate > into Virtual Full. > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: Using Device "DeviceF1" to write. > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-sd JobId 5738: Fatal error: Read and write devices > not properly initialized. > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-sd JobId 5738: Elapsed time=438512:24:21, Transfer > rate=0 Bytes/second > 10-Jan 13:54 bacula-server-dir JobId 5738: Error: Bacula bacula-server-dir > 9.4.4 (28May19): > Build OS: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-bacula redhat > JobId: 5738 > Job: blhwsync11.2020-01-10_13.54.16_04 > Backup Level: Virtual Full > Client: "blhwsync11-fd" 9.4.4 (28May19) > x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-bacula,redhat, > FileSet: "blhwsync11" 2019-12-10 22:00:01 > Pool: "TestbedFull-F" (From Job VFullPool override) > Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource) > Storage: "StorageF" (From Pool resource) > Scheduled time: 10-Jan-2020 13:54:14 > Start time: 08-Jan-2020 22:00:02 > End time: 08-Jan-2020 22:00:14 > Elapsed time: 12 secs > Priority: 10 > SD Files Written: 0 > SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) > Rate: 0.0 KB/s > Volume name(s): > Volume Session Id: 1 > Volume Session Time: 1578644639 > Last Volume Bytes: 1 (1 B) > SD Errors: 1 > SD termination status: Error > Termination: *** Backup Error *** > > Later I tried running the virtual full backup "explicitly" to consolidate the > last virtual full and subsequent incremental jobs. This went through fine > without any errors. > > So the issue seems to be in the Bacula's handling of the configuration > setting : "Max Virtual Full Interval " ? > Any advice ? > > Thanks, > Yateen > > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users