On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Edwards <michael.edwa...@engineering.ucsb.edu> wrote: > I canceled a job about an hour ago as it wasn't going to run. It is the > only job that would be writing to the volume mounted in drive 1 of our 2 > drive Dell Powervault. Drive 0 is in use doing backups from another > pool. After about a half an hour, I noticed that other jobs were > "waiting on storage tape" and the volume that the canceled job would > have written to was still in drive 1. I tried to unmount the volume > from drive 1 and got: > > 3937 Device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst1) is busy with 0 writer(s). > > 3937 is the number of the canceled job. 3937 no longer appears as a > running job when doing a status dir, but shows up as a terminated job. > Any idea why this job won't release the drive, despite being canceled > and the drive showing that nothing is writing to it? > > ......... > ......... > > As I am writing this, I noticed that the volume did finally unmount from > drive 1, and a volume from another pool is now mounted. But, why the > hour+ delay, when the entire time the drive showed that nothing was > writing to it? >
Canceled job still writing to catalog database? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
