Greetings - I'm running Bacula 5.2.5 on an Ubuntu 12.04.2 server, with an attached Dell PVTL2000 tape library. Everything has been working fine for a little while, until I decided to get another tape magazine to swap tapes in/out of the library for easier transition to offsite storage.
Here's my dilemma: I use the tape library for Spool jobs. Once I swap the old magazine out (following the instructions at http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Autochanger_Resource.html#SECTION002950000000000000000), Bacula refuses to automatically use any tapes in the newly-inserted magazine. One of the tapes in the old magazine is in Append mode, and it keeps asking for that tape despite it (and the other tapes from the old magazine) not being marked as In Changer. I can manually force Bacula to unmount/update slots/mount and name a specific tape to use, but once that tape fills up it goes back to asking for the tape from the other magazine: 19-Jun 11:46 khq-backups2-sd JobId 11304: Please mount Volume "000003L5" or label a new one for: Job: Spool-www-Tape.2013-06-18_06.10.00_32 Storage: "LTO-5-1" (/dev/nst0) Pool: Tape Media type: LTO-5 Some relevant info: In trying to reduce network overhead, the backup server has been added to each of the VLANs where the Bacula clients reside, resulting in numerous file and tape storage definitions. I have had no problems with backing up to files. Here's a subset of the file/tape definitions: Storage { Name = File_2 Address = 192.168.1.35 SDPort = 9103 Password = "<redacted>" Device = DiskStorage Media Type = File Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 7 } Storage { Name = File_3 Address = 192.168.113.35 SDPort = 9103 Password = "<redacted>" Device = DiskStorage Media Type = File Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 7 } Storage { Name = TapeLibrary_2 Address = 192.168.1.35 SDPort = 9103 Password = "<redacted>" Device = Autochanger Media Type = LTO-5 Autochanger = yes Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 7 } Storage { Name = TapeLibrary_3 Address = 192.168.113.35 SDPort = 9103 Password = "<redacted>" Device = Autochanger Media Type = LTO-5 Autochanger = yes Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 7 } And here's the config for the Autochanger/tape drive: Autochanger { Name = Autochanger Device = LTO-5-1 Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" Changer Device = /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-1IBM_3573-TL_00X2U78X8563_LL0 } Device { Name = LTO-5-1 Media Type = LTO-5 Archive Device = /dev/nst0 Spool Directory = /storage/spool Maximum Spool Size = 1500G AutomaticMount = yes; AlwaysOpen = yes; RemovableMedia = yes; RandomAccess = no; Maximum File Size = 5GB AutoChanger = yes Autoselect = yes Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'" } The problem has not been limited to a specific VLAN. Prior to adding the second magazine, it was using the tapes in the changer just fine, overwriting old, changing status as appropriate, etc. I've been using Bacula for about 6 months, and haven't had a problem getting past any issues until now. No idea what I'm missing here. What other info did I fail to provide? Any thoughts on what's going on? Thanks, -- Kevin B. Zimmerman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users