Hello,
On 20.10.2005 14:19, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
I posted my config files on a previous mail.
That's true, but actually I don't want to help you set up Bacula to your
needs - I can offer you advice on how to set it up and troubleshoot, but
I usually get paid for custom-made installations :-)
The strange fact is that this happens on some days only.
For two days everything worked fine, then sometimes this happens.
Please have a look at my files, and suggest what I should do.
Try to analyze what goes wrong, and if you've got questions then I'm
sure we will help you interpreting the output.
What I need is to have 5 tapes labeled for the 5 days (mon,tue,wed,thu,fri).
If I put the correct tape on the correct day, bacula should never
complain, and start
reusing the tape from scratch (mark it recyclable and overwrite it).
Never use incremental.
I think I pointed out that this is not the way I would use Bacula, and
thus I can't produce a fitting configuration without effort.
I think I started from the wrong example to implement my backup config.
I used an example on the pdf documentation.
Arno
Thanx for any help.
Gabriele.
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Da: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Data: 20 ottobre 2005 14.06.00 CEST
Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Still about my Bacula Config
Hello,
On 20.10.2005 12:40, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>
> ....today the LTO was mounted and device BLOCKED waiting for
appendable
> media..........
> I unmounted, remounted many times and still blocked. But Mount
was not
> telling me what tape was inside (the label).
> So I unmounted.
> Used btape to see the label on the tape. It was correct........
> So I canceled any waiting job.
> Stopped bacula and restarted.
> Used mount, and I got the mount answer saying what label was on
> tape........ ????? why???
...etc. pp.
Unfortunately, the inormation you can give is probably not enough to
determine the reasone for that behaviour.
It There seem to be two problems you have. First one, in my opinion, is
that you use a too complicated volume management. (At least for me - I
wouldn't want to handle pools for each weekday.)
Second, there *might* be some problems with your tapes, drive, or even
the SD. To analyze this, I would suggest to set up a test scenarion -
only use one pool, two tapes, no scheduled jobs at first. Run director
and SD with debug output, and try to follow their actions when a
tape is
requested, what happens when the SD mounts a tape, and see if the SD
can
read that tape.
(I assume you did run the complete btape test suite...)
> Then I tried to re run a job by hand.....still waiting for
appendable media.
> Canceled the job again.
> Purged the volume by hand.
> Re run the job, and finally I got the job running.......why do I
have to
> purge the volume?!?!?!
obviously because the tape was consiered Used. this means that your
retention times don't work as you want them, which usually indicates
you
set it up incorrectly, didn't understand what you set up, or didn't
update the existing volume information in the catalog after a change to
the pool defaults.
> The "list volumes" before doing purge was:
> | 17 | MERCOLEDI | Used | 94,444,831,817 | 98 |
> 28,800 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO | 2005-10-13 01:03:42 |
Arno
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