I recently started using the Virtual Autochanger as described in 'Best Practices for Disk Based Backup' [1]
It is working for me, but I encountered a problem with the audo-label process. My bacula-sd.conf and the full transcript of the logging problem is at: https://gist.github.com/dlangille/ef858722b30ae182b40f Ideas? A job stalled with: 24-Aug 01:43 crey-sd JobId 215534: Job dent.2015-08-24_00.58.35_01 is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. I amended the pool definition to allow more Volumes, then went back to bconsole, expecting a mount command to create & label a new volume. *mount The defined Storage resources are: 1: CreyFile 2: CompaqStorageWorksTapeLibrary Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 Connecting to Storage daemon CreyFile at crey.int.unixathome.org:9103 ... Enter autochanger drive[0]: Enter autochanger slot: 3999 Device "VirtualDisk" not found or could not be opened. * Then I tried label: *label The defined Storage resources are: 1: CreyFile 2: CompaqStorageWorksTapeLibrary Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 2 Enter new Volume name: . You have messages. *m 24-Aug 01:45 bacula-dir JobId 215534: Created new Volume="DiffAuto-4861", Pool="DiffFile", MediaType="File" in catalog. 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No such file or directory 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No such file or directory 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No such file or directory 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No such file or directory *m 24-Aug 01:45 crey-sd JobId 215534: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) Volume "DiffAuto-4861" failed: ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not open(/usr/local/bacula/volumes/DiffAuto-4861,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No such file or directory Eventually, I again tried mount: mount The defined Storage resources are: 1: CreyFile 2: CompaqStorageWorksTapeLibrary Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 Enter autochanger drive[0]: Enter autochanger slot: 3999 Device "VirtualDisk" not found or could not be opened. You have messages. *m 24-Aug 01:54 crey-sd JobId 215534: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "DiffAuto-4861" on file device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) 24-Aug 01:54 crey-sd JobId 215534: New volume "DiffAuto-4861" mounted on device "vDrive-1" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes) at 24-Aug-2015 01:54. * [1] - http://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users