Re: [Bacula-users] unable to run scheduled jobs

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Hi, you should cancel zombie jobs.

R.

pt., 3 sty 2025 o 14:40 Adam Weremczuk <ad...@ma...> napisał(a):

> In bconsole -> status -> storage, under running jobs, I could see:
>
> Writing: Incremental Backup job skippy_backup JobId=5093 Volume=""
>      pool="lto_weekly_pool" device="Quantum LTO-8 HH" (/dev/nst0)
>      spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>      Files=0 Bytes=0 AveBytes/sec=0 LastBytes/sec=0
>      FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=852 fd=3
> Writing: Incremental Backup job skippy_backup JobId=5113
> Volume="LTO-W20230412A"
>      pool="lto_weekly_pool" device="Quantum LTO-8 HH" (/dev/nst0)
>      spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>      Files=0 Bytes=0 AveBytes/sec=0 LastBytes/sec=0
>      FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=8
> Writing: Incremental Backup job hawk_backup JobId=5115
> Volume="LTO-W20230419A"
>      pool="lto_weekly_pool" device="Quantum LTO-8 HH" (/dev/nst0)
>      spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>      Files=0 Bytes=0 AveBytes/sec=0 LastBytes/sec=0
>      FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=11
> Writing: Incremental Backup job horse_backup JobId=5114
> Volume="LTO-W20230419A"
>      pool="lto_weekly_pool" device="Quantum LTO-8 HH" (/dev/nst0)
>      spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>      Files=0 Bytes=0 AveBytes/sec=0 LastBytes/sec=0
>      FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=12
> Writing: Incremental Backup job bison_backup JobId=5116
> Volume="LTO-W20230419A"
>      pool="lto_weekly_pool" device="Quantum LTO-8 HH" (/dev/nst0)
>      spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>      Files=0 Bytes=0 AveBytes/sec=0 LastBytes/sec=0
>      FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=15
>
> These are old, unfinished or cancelled jobs. Neither of the volumes
> mentioned is currently inserted into the drive.
>
> When I try to cancel any of them it says it's not running:
>
> *cancel jobid=5113
> Warning Job JobId=5113 is not running.
>
> What made them all disappear was a full server reboot.
>
> Possibly a storage and director restart would have sufficed).
>
> All subsequent scheduled jobs completed fine.
>
> Is it a bug resulting in zombie jobs being left hanging like that?
>
>
>
> On 02/01/2025 13:00, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> > Trying to manually run a one-off full backup for a single client also
> > gets stuck at "job is waiting on Storage".
> >
> >
> > On 02/01/2025 11:42, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> >> Forgot to add I'm using LTO-8 tapes.
> >>
> >> On 02/01/2025 11:41, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11.
> >>>
> >>> There has been some mess up around Xmas time:
> >>>
> >>> 1. On 27 Dec some scheduled jobs exceeded max run time (18 hrs) and
> >>> got cancelled.
> >>>
> >>> 2. On the same day, the tape drive was used for a "one off" job,
> >>> which took 3 days and run out of (temporarily extended) 72 hrs max
> >>> run time. No other auto-scheduled jobs could run during that period.
> >>>
> >>> 3. We run full weekly backups on Wednesdays and incremental on other
> >>> week days. In order to avoid hitting 25 Dec and 1 Jan I temporarily
> >>> changed this schedule to Tuesdays.
> >>> I made a mistake leaving catalog schedule and weekly schedule jobs at
> >>> Wednesdays, my bad.
> >>>
> >>> Now I've changed full schedules back to normal (Wednesdays).
> >>> I'm in a situation where all scheduled jobs refuse to run with:
> >>>
> >>> "...is waiting on Storage"
> >>> "Intervention needed for...""
> >>> "Job xxx waiting to reserve a device."
> >>>
> >>> When I check the schedule:
> >>> bconsole -> status allIt all looks good - a full set of full backups
> >>> is lined up.
> >>>
> >>> The tape currently inserted is the next in line and is mounted.
> >>> I've "purged" it and it changed status to "recycle".
> >>> Surprisingly, when I run a free space check on it, it reports as half
> >>> full.
> >>> I've manually changed the status to "append" which has made no
> >>> difference.
> >>>
> >>> Can somebody advise how to get back on track?
> >>>
> >>> Regards and Happy New Year!
> >>> Adam
> >>>
> >>
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