Hello,
Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote:
...
During regular operations of bacula, this should not happen. (Although
I'm only assuming regular operations...). I understand that bacula
loaded the tapes from slots 3,4,5, wrote data onto them until they were
full, and then unloaded them, right?
Before they were loaded and after assinging their slot numbers... they were
marked as "Append" .. then later saw that bacula changed them to
"Purged" ( This was still before bacula loaded and wrote to the volumes ),
but their slot assignments were still correct ( non-zero ).
That is normal, because when you label a volume it's marked "Append"
(iirc) and it only gets purged later. At least, that's what I see here.
I assume purging is done during a recycling rund when bacula needs a new
volume - the LastWritten date is initialized with unix time zero - or,
probably, the equivalent for your database - and so, usually, volumes
should be out of retention... I wonder what happens if you set the
retention to 50 years :-)
Now when bacula loaded the volume and were writing to the volume, the slot
assignment seen via "list volumes" changed from non-zero to zero. Then they
were marked as "Full", bacula unloaded the volume ... but the slot assignment
then remained as zero.
Maybe it has something to do with the volumes being marked as "Purged" ?
I doubt that...
After that, the volumes should be marked with the slot they are in (if
they are loaded in a drive, they should still have the same slot
number,!) and Inchanger should be set to 1.
After they were unloaded, they are now set to slot 0.
Something I only noticed very seldom.
Does this still happen or have you resolved the problems? If it remains
a problem, you should report it via bugs.bacula.org
Arno
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