It doesn't address the issue that Bacula refuses to purge the volume I
requested, and that it does not respond to the request with an
appropriate (or any) error message - causing me to have to exit the
interface so ungracefully - however it's done.
Deann
Mike Reinehr wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:14 pm, deann corum wrote:
I'm trying to recycle some older tapes and having issues with Bacula:
a) Bacula not wanting to purge the old tape volume from the catalog.
Bconsole just sits there for hours after I type 'purge' and subsequently
select the volume to be purged. I have to Ctrl-Z to get out of Bacula at
that point.
Ctrl-Z does not "get out of Bacula". Ctrl-Z suspends Bacula and returns
control to Bash. Hence, bconsole is still running. You would use ctrl-C,
ctrl-D, or the kill command to kill the original bconsole.
Hope this helps!
cmr
b) Once an older tape is rewound and the label erased, Bacula refuses,
still, to write a new label (and it is set to auto-label the tapes) or
to use the tape. 'status stor' in bconsole gives a "device BLOCKED
waiting for appendable media" and backups will not run.
The sequence of events is that first, A happens, then I do B and the
result is, of course, that Bacula refuses to label or use the tape. I
suspect this has to do with some purge or recycle setting and the fact
that Bacula still sees the tape (data and/or label) and refuses to
overwrite it due to that setting. Maybe.
I say maybe because another interesting thing is that before the tape
label was erased, a read label command showed that Bacula seemed to
think the tape was not a Bacula-labeled volume, even though we know it
is - and the volume is (still) in the catalog.
YES, the little plastic tab on the tape is set to 'record', so that's
not the issue.
Any clues as to what might be happening here?
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