Dirk Bartley wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 14:20 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: >> Dirk Bartley wrote: >>> Greetings >>> >>> Can someone tell me if there is a different behaviour in the latest >>> version? A job started on Friday for a monthly pool. I use a single >>> tape drive with no changer. The tape that was asked for was in a safe >>> in a different building. Other tapes for the monthly pool were >>> available and appendable. My recollection was that previously I could >>> put a tape in the appropriate pool in the drive, and as long as it was >>> appendable in the media list, the job would proceed with that tape.
Your recollection is not quite correct. The Volume must also be in the right pool, and the Status must be either Append or Recycle >>> Bacula kept insisting that I use the tape it wanted from that pool, not >>> the tape from that pool I had inserted. I had to put in a tape I had >>> for the Monthly pool that was appendable, emtpy and then mark it as >>> recyle=yes to get the job started. >>> >>> Is this something different?? >> I do not know the answer to your question. >> >> After inserting the tape, did you issue a mount command? > Yes, I did attempt a few times to issue the mount command. In the > console window, the director responded to the mount with something to > the effect of "Unable to use tape LTO_MON_03. The a tape must be in > the monthly pool, must be appendable and must have the recycle flag > set to yes." Clearly this tape was not acceptable for the job in question. Therefore, Bacula was correctly rejected it. > Because of the message, I decided not to attempt to use a tape that > was partially filled, by setting it's recyle flag to yes. My > understanding is that recycling a tape would purge the existing jobs > from the tape, which was not what I desired. Yes, recycling overwrites the existing data on the Volume. So far, everything you have described is what I would expect Bacula to do. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
