[Bacula-bugs] [bacula 0001313]: Drives block waiting on tape

[Mantis B. T. <no...@bu...>]

The following issue requires your FEEDBACK. 
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http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1313 
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Reported By:                slords
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    bacula
Issue ID:                   1313
Category:                   Storage Daemon
Reproducibility:            random
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2009-06-18 16:43 BST
Last Modified:              2009-06-21 12:09 BST
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Summary:                    Drives block waiting on tape
Description: 
Most of the time my nightly backup jobs run fine.  However 1-2 times every
week or so I get notices that a drive is blocking waiting for a tape.  It
appears from the job log that it tried to mount the tape a few times and
then just gives up and starts asking for me to mount the tape manually.

My setup is a HD autochanger with 4 drives defined.

I've attached the job log from this morning which was the last time this
occurred.  All running jobs finished at 1:40am and only the blocking job
(and the lower priority job catalog) were left in the queue.  Once I
manually mounted a volume at 6:40am everything finished like it should
have.

It would be nice to not have to manually mount the "tapes".
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 (0004330) kern (administrator) - 2009-06-21 12:09
 http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1313#c4330 
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Could you do a "status storage" when it blocks again and attach the output.
 That will help me see what Volumes Bacula thinks is where.  The output you
attached shows where the problem occurs, but I don't see where Volume
Daily-057 was mounted.

What VTL program are you using?
 
It also might be useful to attach your bacula-sd.conf file.

In general, Bacula should not get into this kind of a problem any more, so
I would like to see what is triggering it.  To do so might require turning
on some debug level, but before we do that I would like to see the
information requested above ...

One case where this problem can occur is that you are using a lot of
drives, but you don't have enough available Volumes, but I am not sure that
is the problem, because the VTL is returning an error. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2009-06-18 16:43 slords         New Issue                                    
2009-06-18 16:43 slords         File Added: job.txt                          
2009-06-21 12:09 kern           Note Added: 0004330                          
2009-06-21 12:09 kern           Status                   new => feedback     
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