I believe the problem is that both have the same mediatype.
On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 20:35, White, Daniel E. (GSFC-764.0)[AEGIS] via
Bacula-users <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I know WHAT is happening, just not WHY
> I am hoping someone sees something obviously bogus in here.
>
> Extract from bacula-dir.conf :
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = "Disk01-Incremental-Autochanger"
> Address = "<SD Server Address>"
> Autochanger = "Disk01-Incremental-Autochanger"
> Device = "Disk01-Incremental-Autochanger"
> MaximumConcurrentJobs = 10
> MediaType = "DiskVolume"
> Password = <redacted>
> SdPort = 9103
> }
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger"
> Address = "<SD Server Address>"
> Autochanger = "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger"
> Device = "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger"
> MaximumConcurrentJobs = 10
> MediaType = "DiskVolume"
> Password = <redacted>
> SdPort = 9103
> }
>
> Pool {
> Name = "Incremental"
> ActionOnPurge = Truncate
> AutoPrune = yes
> LabelFormat = "IncVol-"
> MaximumVolumeBytes = 536870912000
> MaximumVolume = 20
> PoolType = "Backup"
> PurgeOldestVolume = yes
> Recycle = yes
> Storage =
> "Disk01-Incremental-Autochanger","Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger"
> StorageGroupPolicy = "FreeSpace"
> VolumeRetention = 2 weeks
> }
>
> Extract from bacula-sd.conf :
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = "Disk01-Incremental-Autochanger"
> ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
> ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
> Device =
> "Disk01-Dev01-Incremental","Disk01-Dev02-Incremental","Disk01-Dev03-Incremental","Disk01-Dev04-Incremental","Disk01-Dev05-Incremental","Disk01-Dev06-Incremental","Disk01-Dev07-Incremental","Disk01-Dev08-Incremental","Disk01-Dev09-Incremental","Disk01-Dev10-Incremental"
> }
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger"
> ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
> ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
> Device =
> "Disk02-Dev01-Incremental","Disk02-Dev02-Incremental","Disk02-Dev03-Incremental","Disk02-Dev04-Incremental","Disk02-Dev05-Incremental","Disk02-Dev06-Incremental","Disk02-Dev07-Incremental","Disk02-Dev08-Incremental","Disk02-Dev09-Incremental","Disk02-Dev10-Incremental"
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = "Disk01-Dev01-Incremental"
> AlwaysOpen = yes
> ArchiveDevice = "/backups/Disk01/INCREMENTAL"
> AutomaticMount = yes
> DeviceType = File
> LabelMedia = yes
> MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
> MediaType = "DiskVolume"
> RandomAccess = yes
> RemovableMedia = no
> }
> ... repeat 39 for times changing Name and ArchiveDevice as needed
>
> Finally, the bacula.log extract showing the error:
>
>
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 36: Start Backup JobId 36,
> Job=<Bacula Server>.2025-07-30_03.00.00_32
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 36: Connected to Storage
> "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger" at <SD Server Address>:9103 with TLS
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 36: Using Device
> "Disk02-Dev05-Incremental" to write.
> ...
>
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 36: Storage
> "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger" was selected out of group of 2 available
> storages. StorageGroupPolicy "FreeSpace" used
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 36: Connected to Client "<Bacula
> Server>-fd" at <SD Server Address>:9102 with TLS
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-fd JobId 36: Connected to Storage at <SD
> Server Address>:9103 with TLS
> ...
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 36: Created new
> Volume="IncVol-0007", Pool="Incremental", MediaType="DiskVolume" in catalog.
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-sd JobId 36: Labeled new Volume "IncVol-0007"
> on File device "Disk02-Dev05-Incremental" (/backups/Disk02/INCREMENTAL).
> 30-Jul 03:00 <Bacula Server>-sd JobId 36: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume
> "IncVol-0007" on File device "Disk02-Dev05-Incremental"
> (/backups/Disk02/INCREMENTAL)
> Termination: Backup OK
>
> Note that Disk02 is used
> Volume "IncVol-0007" created here
>
> Subsequent jobs run and append to Volume "IncVol-0007"
>
> 03-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 48: Connected to Storage
> "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger" at <SD Server Address>:9103 with TLS
> 03-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 48: Using Device
> "Disk02-Dev08-Incremental" to write.
> 03-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 48: Storage
> "Disk02-Incremental-Autochanger" was selected out of group of 2 available
> storages. StorageGroupPolicy "FreeSpace" used
> ...
> 03-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-sd JobId 48: Volume "IncVol-0007" previously
> written, moving to end of data.
>
> Now we get the error:
>
> This time, the StorageGroupPolicy of "FreeSpace" picks Disk01 !
>
> 08-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 65: Using Device
> "Disk01-Dev06-Incremental" to write.
> 08-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-dir JobId 65: Storage
> "Disk01-Incremental-Autochanger" was selected out of group of 2 available
> storages. StorageGroupPolicy "FreeSpace" used
> 08-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-sd JobId 65: Warning: mount.c:216 Open of
> File device "Disk01-Dev06-Incremental" (/backups/Disk01/INCREMENTAL) Volume
> "IncVol-0007" failed: ERR=Could not
> open(/backups/Disk01/INCREMENTAL/IncVol-0007,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No
> such file or directory
> 08-Aug 03:00 <Bacula Server>-sd JobId 65: Marking Volume "IncVol-0007" in
> Error in Catalog.
>
> =============================
>
> The volume's path is /backups/Disk02/INCREMENTAL/IncVol-0007
> but Bacula is looking to write to /backups/Disk01/INCREMENTAL/IncVol-0007
>
> Here is the problem.
>
> The same line
> StorageGroupPolicy = "FreeSpace"
> is in each JobDefs resource in bacula-dir.conf
>
> Does anyone see a stupid mistake made on my part ?
>
> Does anyone see a way past this mess ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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