You need to have a different pool to do your backup in. The Scratch
pool is a special pool that the other pools go to when they are out of
media.
I have 3 pools a Scratch, Weekly and Daily pool. All new tapes are put
into the Scratch pool then backups are done in the Weekly and Daily
pool. As tapes are needed they are pulled from the Scratch pool.
I hope that helps.
-Jason
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:50 -0500, Michael Galloway wrote:
> good day all, i'm working thru getting backups working on my new
> library, i labled 10 tapes in the library from inside bconsole
> using barcodes, i put them all into the scratch pool:
>
> Pool: Scratch
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles |
> volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
> | 1 | 002048L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
> 31,536,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | LTO4 | |
> | 2 | 002047L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
> 31,536,000 | 1 | 3 | 1 | LTO4
>
> etc ....
>
> when i try and run a backup using the scratch pool via the command line:
>
> Run Backup job
> JobName: Client1
> Level: Full
> Client: molbio-fd
> FileSet: Full Set
> Pool: Scratch (From Job resource)
> Storage: LTO4 (From Job resource)
> When: 2007-11-29 10:16:59
> Priority: 10
> OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes
> Job queued. JobId=7
>
> i get:
>
> 29-Nov 10:17 molbio-dir JobId 7: Start Backup JobId 7,
> Job=Client1.2007-11-29_10.17.11
> 29-Nov 10:17 molbio-dir JobId 7: Using Device "LTO4"
> 29-Nov 10:17 molbio-sd JobId 7: Job Client1.2007-11-29_10.17.11 waiting.
> Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
> Storage: "LTO4" (/dev/nst0)
> Pool: Scratch
> Media type: Ultrium-4
>
> all though all volumes in scratch pool are listed as appendable.
>
> i must be misunderstanding the use of the scratch pool, i understood that
> bacula would select volumes
> as needed from it. my bacula version is:
>
> *version
> molbio-dir Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu redhat
>
> is my approach to this incorrect?
>
> -- michael
>
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