I've recently installed a new server and configure Bacula to automatically label up to 10 volumes. Very soon I've got a message that intervention was needed and when looking at it one volume was totally used and the rest in Append mode but not being used.
I managed to get that original one into recycle mode, but the rest just remain in Append mode and backing up doesn't work.
Here's some console output.
My volumes
*list volumes
Pool: Default
+---------+-------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
+---------+-------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| 1 | mozart-0001 | Recycle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2009-11-12 23:10:02 |
| 2 | mozart-0002 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 3 | mozart-0003 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 4 | mozart-0004 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 5 | mozart-0005 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 6 | mozart-0006 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 7 | mozart-0007 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 8 | mozart-0008 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 9 | mozart-0009 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 10 | mozart-0010 | Append | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,296,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
+---------+-------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
Pool: Scratch
No results to list.
Running a backup:
*run
A job name must be specified.
The defined Job resources are:
1: Main
2: Catalog
3: RestoreFiles
Select Job resource (1-3): 1
Run Backup job
JobName: Main
Level: Incremental
Client: mozart-fd
FileSet: Full Set
Pool: Default (From Job resource)
Storage: chopin-sd (From Job resource)
When: 2009-11-18 15:12:45
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes
Job queued. JobId=28
18-Nov 15:12 mozart-dir JobId 28: No prior Full backup Job record found.
18-Nov 15:12 mozart-dir JobId 28: No prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup.
*
The failure:
18-Nov 15:49 chopin-sd JobId 27: Job Main.2009-11-18_14.49.47.28 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: "FileStorage" (/var/bacula-backups)
Pool: Default
Media type: File
*
Any ideas what might be going on? How comes it doesn't find any appendable volume?
Best Answer
The InChanger flag is set to zero. If this setup is using a tape library you shold be able to run "update slots" in bconsole to scan the library and update the InChanger and Slot informatoin.