I found something.
Your autochanger does not reference any of the 'drive' devices that should
be under its management.
Additionally, your 'drive' device 'filestorage' is set to 'readonly = yes'.
This is only good if you want to reserve a drive for restores or verify
jobs or something like that. Will not work for backups.
See this example from my synology-based file changer setup, in bacula
15.0.2. I have multiple drive devices under one autochanger. Pretend that
this is a physical tape library, with multiple tape drives. That might help
it make more sense. Devices 'Synology-Local-001' through 005 are read/write
devices. Device Synology-Local-006 is a readonly device, because it is
intended to be used only with restores. This way a drive is always
available for a restore when you want to do one.
At this point, your Storage {} resource from the bacula-dir is very much
like mine from my synology system. I think it's probably good. It should
refer to the autochanger name, not the individual drive devices under the
autochanger.
I can provide a full redacted dump of my configs if that would help.
#SD
Autochanger {
ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
Name = "Synology-Local"
Device = "Synology-Local-001"
Device = "Synology-Local-002"
Device = "Synology-Local-003"
Device = "Synology-Local-004"
Device = "Synology-Local-005"
Device = "Synology-Local-006"
}
Device {
Name = "Synology-Local-001"
Description = ""
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/synology/bacula/Synology-Local"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
ReadOnly = no
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 0
}
Device {
Name = "Synology-Local-002"
Description = ""
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/synology/bacula/Synology-Local"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
ReadOnly = no
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 1
}
Device {
Name = "Synology-Local-003"
Description = ""
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/synology/bacula/Synology-Local"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
ReadOnly = no
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 2
}
Device {
Name = "Synology-Local-004"
Description = ""
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/synology/bacula/Synology-Local"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
ReadOnly = no
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 3
}
Device {
Name = "Synology-Local-005"
Description = ""
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/synology/bacula/Synology-Local"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
ReadOnly = no
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 4
}
Device {
Name = "Synology-Local-006"
Description = ""
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/synology/bacula/Synology-Local"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
ReadOnly = yes
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 5
AutoSelect = no # this drive will not be used by backups so it will
remain available for restores.
}
#dir
Storage {
Name = "Synology-Local"
Description = "Synology-Local"
SdPort = 9103
Address = "td-bacula"
Password = "REDACTED"
Device = "Synology-Local"
MediaType = "Synology-Local"
Autochanger = "Synology-Local"
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 50
}
Regards,
Robert Gerber
402-237-8692
r...@craeon.net
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at>
wrote:
> Am 18.08.25 um 19:34 schrieb Rob Gerber:
> > Stefan,
> >
> > Did you restart the SD? bconsole 'reload' only reloads the dir.
> >
> > in shell, try 'sudo systemctl restart bacula-dir.service bacula-
> > sd.service bacula-fd.service;/opt/bacula/bin/bacula status'
> >
> > (you can restart all more simply using 'bacula restart' but this breaks
> > systemctl service monitoring until you reboot, iirc).
>
> Yes, I restarted all the daemons. 3x ;-)
> > 'file_changer' is the name of your autochanger in the bacula-sd.conf
> file.
> I show again what I have now. It seems I still don't get all the
> concepts, sorry. I think I have that mess for the n-th time.
>
> # dir
>
> Storage {
> Name = "filestorage"
> Description = "local storage on tx100:/mnt/tera/bacula"
> SdPort = 9103
> Address = "tx100.loc.oops.co.at"
> Password = "_swXHSgGz6DhqHOxS2PlmbAJks_LY6Gg0"
> Device = "file_changer"
> MediaType = "File1"
> Autochanger = "yes"
> MaximumConcurrentJobs = 50
> }
>
> # sd
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = "file_changer"
> Device = "filestorage"
> ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
> ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = "filestorage"
> Description = "local storage on tx100:/mnt/tera/bacula"
> MediaType = "File1"
> DeviceType = "File"
> ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/tera/bacula/file"
> RemovableMedia = no
> RandomAccess = yes
> AutomaticMount = yes
> LabelMedia = yes
> Autochanger = yes
> ReadOnly = yes
> MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
> MaximumSpoolSize = 8000000000
> MaximumJobSpoolSize = 8000000000
> DriveIndex = 5
> VolumeEncryption = "Yes"
> }
>
> Storage {
> Name = "tx100-sd"
> WorkingDirectory = "/opt/bacula/working"
> PidDirectory = "/opt/bacula/working"
> MaximumConcurrentJobs = 20
> EncryptionCommand = "/etc/bacula/scripts/key-manager.py getkey"
> }
>
> thank you!
>
>
>
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