Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-04 Thread John Hayden
Arno, Thanks again. Excellent explanation, especially getting through my thick skull! (lol) Although I am making progress, I am still having some issues. Last night, my incremental worked except those that were blocked by the catalog backup that did not work. After I cancelled the

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/4/2006 4:57 PM, John Hayden wrote: Arno, Thanks again. Excellent explanation, especially getting through my thick skull! (lol) I see you're working in a medical institution - have you started your career in radiology and still carry around the lead protection? ;-P

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Hi. Image you have a tape with 3 jobs on it. Now you purge all _jobs_ via bconsole (or job retention time). After that Bacula considers the tape as useless cause it has no clue whats stored on it. All job information (files backuped on the tape) were purged, so it frees the tape. Greetings,

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread John Hayden
Michael, These are brand new tapes that I just labeled and add to the pool. Then a few seconds/minutes later, they are marked as purged and I have no tapes again John Hayden On Jan 3, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Hi. Image you have a tape with 3 jobs on it. Now

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Hi John. a) the tapes aren't deleted, just marked as purged so they can be used for an upcoming job, you can check that with list media pool=PoolName in bconsole b) might be the default behaviour atm, cause well, a new tape has no jobs attached to it and therefor gets marked as purged

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/3/2006 9:44 PM, John Hayden wrote: Michael, ... no, but still... These are brand new tapes that I just labeled and add to the pool. Then a few seconds/minutes later, they are marked as purged and I have no tapes again No, it's not that you have no available tapes.

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
John Hayden wrote: Hope everyone had a god New Years! In my continuing saga of a retrograde, any volume I label and add to a pool almost immediately gets marked as purged with the following message: 03-Jan 15:46 rosalind-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Mutation0020.

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread John Hayden
Arno, If that is expected behavior, then I think that when I run the status command in bconsole and ask for the status of the director, I should not get the following: *status Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula Status available for: 1: Director 2: Storage 3:

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes being purged in error!!!!! Help

2006-01-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 1/3/2006 11:15 PM, John Hayden wrote: Arno, If that is expected behavior, Expected behaviour... well, it's what I got used to. Usually, I'd expect a new volume to start with status unused or purged, but append is kind of... funny. then I think that when I run the status