Hello, >From what I've read in the archives, this is a tricky subject. I've regularly had issues with this in the past, and have stumbled upon a few threads that deal with it. That, coupled with some unholy kludges (such as disabling the /Enabled/ field for volumes I wanted left alone) has gotten me where I want to be so far, but now I'm stuck again.
Mimicking the advice in a previous thread [1], restarting the Storage Daemon after manually purging a volume it has helped me get a backup job to use it. However this is a large job that is to spand multiple volumes, and the other volumes in the pool, all in /Used/ state, are ignored by Bacula who requests a new one be label instead. This is what my pool looks like : ---+-------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+ Id | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | ---+-------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+ 33 | Sony_01 | Full | 1 | 164,679,846,912 | 34 | Sony_02 | Used | 1 | 1 | 35 | Sony_03 | Used | 1 | 1 | 37 | Sony_04 | Used | 1 | 524,288 | 38 | Sony_05 | Purged | 0 | 188,257,499,136 | 39 | Sony_06 | Purged | 0 | 196,336,659,456 | 40 | Sony_07 | Append | 0 | 177,335,165,952 | 41 | Sony_08 | Append | 0 | 524,288 | ---+-------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+ 33 to 37 is the set I'm trying to write my job to; (38 to 41 is in the vault, hence its zeroed /Enabled/ bit I mentioned (seeing as I usually run late in my backup schedule, keep them beyond their set Retention Time, and Bacula usually wants to use them otherwise)) This situation is more troublesome than what I've encountered before, since the issue arises after a full tape has been written to (that's a few hours given the slow PCI bus my SCSI HBA is connected to). This makes trial and error costly in terms of time and hardware wear. Before I migrate to a newer version of Bacula, is there a way I can get this backup job to execute on this set of tapes ? Regards, Lucas [1] http://adsm.org//lists/html/Bacula-users/2008-06/msg00292.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
