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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0001426bareos-coredirectorpublic2024-05-15 15:52
Reportermschiff Assigned Tostephand  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
PlatformLinuxOSanyOS Version3
Product Version21.0.0 
Summary0001426: bareos send useless operator "mount" messages
DescriptionThe default configuration has messages/Standard.conf which contains:

operator = <email> = mount

which shouldsend an email if an operator is required for a job to continue.

But these mails will also be triggered on a busy bareos-sd with multiple virtual drives and multiple jobs running, when a job just needs to wait a bit for a volume to become available.
Every month, when our systems are doing virtual full backups at night, we get lots of mails like:

06-Feb 23:37 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Please mount read Volume "VolIncr-0034" for:
    Job: BackupIndia.2022-02-06_23.15.01_31
    Storage: "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos)
    Pool: Incr
    Media type: File

But in the morning, all jobs are finished successsfully.

So when one job is reading a volume and another job is waiting for the same volume, an email is triggered. But after waiting a couple of minutes, this "issue" solves itself.

It should be possible to set some timeout, after which such messages are being sent, so that they will only be sent on really hanging jobs.

This is part of the joblog:

 2022-02-06 23:25:38 kilo-dir JobId 58793: Start Virtual Backup JobId 58793, Job=BackupIndia.2022-02-06_23.15.01_31
 2022-02-06 23:25:38 kilo-dir JobId 58793: Consolidating JobIds 58147,58164,58182,58200,58218,58236,58254,58272,58290,58308,58326,58344,58362,58380,58398,58416,58434,58452,58470,58488,58506
,58524,58542,58560,58578,58596,58614,58632,58650,58668,58686,58704,58722,58740,58758,58764
 2022-02-06 23:25:40 kilo-dir JobId 58793: Bootstrap records written to /var/lib/bareos/kilo-dir.restore.16.bsr
 2022-02-06 23:25:40 kilo-dir JobId 58793: Connected Storage daemon at kilo.sys4.de:9103, encryption: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLSv1.3
 2022-02-06 23:26:42 kilo-dir JobId 58793: Using Device "MultiFileStorage0001" to read.
 2022-02-06 23:26:42 kilo-dir JobId 58793: Using Device "MultiFileStorage0002" to write.
 2022-02-06 23:26:42 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Ready to read from volume "VolFull-0165" on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos).
 2022-02-06 23:26:42 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Forward spacing Volume "VolFull-0165" to file:block 0:3367481982.
 2022-02-06 23:26:53 kilo-sd JobId 58793: End of Volume at file 1 on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos), Volume "VolFull-0165"
 2022-02-06 23:26:53 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Ready to read from volume "VolFull-0168" on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos).
 2022-02-06 23:26:53 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Forward spacing Volume "VolFull-0168" to file:block 2:1033779909.
 2022-02-06 23:26:54 kilo-sd JobId 58793: End of Volume at file 2 on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos), Volume "VolFull-0168"
 2022-02-06 23:26:54 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Ready to read from volume "VolFull-0169" on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos).
 2022-02-06 23:26:54 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Forward spacing Volume "VolFull-0169" to file:block 0:64702.
 2022-02-06 23:27:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: End of Volume at file 1 on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos), Volume "VolFull-0169"
 2022-02-06 23:27:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Warning: stored/vol_mgr.cc:542 Need volume from other drive, but swap not possible. Status: read=1 num_writers=0 num_reserve=0 swap=0 vol=VolIncr-0
022 from dev="MultiFileStorage0004" (/srv/backup/bareos) to "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos)
 2022-02-06 23:27:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Warning: stored/acquire.cc:348 Read acquire: stored/label.cc:268 Could not reserve volume VolIncr-0022 on "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareo
s)
 2022-02-06 23:27:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Please mount read Volume "VolIncr-0022" for:
    Job: BackupIndia.2022-02-06_23.15.01_31
    Storage: "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos)
    Pool: Incr
    Media type: File
 2022-02-06 23:32:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Ready to read from volume "VolIncr-0022" on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos).
 2022-02-06 23:32:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Forward spacing Volume "VolIncr-0022" to file:block 0:3331542115.
 2022-02-06 23:32:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: End of Volume at file 0 on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos), Volume "VolIncr-0022"
 2022-02-06 23:32:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Ready to read from volume "VolIncr-0023" on device "MultiFileStorage0001" (/srv/backup/bareos).
 2022-02-06 23:32:03 kilo-sd JobId 58793: Forward spacing Volume "VolIncr-0023" to file:block 0:750086502.
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stephand

stephand

2022-02-24 11:46

developer   ~0004526

Thanks for reporting this issue. I also already noticed that problem.
It will be very hard to fix this properly without a complete redesign of the whole reservation logic, which would be a huge effort.
But meanwhile we could think about a workaround to mitigate this somehow.
bruno-at-bareos

bruno-at-bareos

2024-03-20 14:38

manager   ~0005854

related to internal task 5574

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2022-02-07 10:37 mschiff New Issue
2022-02-24 11:46 stephand Assigned To => stephand
2022-02-24 11:46 stephand Status new => acknowledged
2022-02-24 11:46 stephand Note Added: 0004526
2024-03-20 14:38 bruno-at-bareos Note Added: 0005854
2024-05-15 15:52 arogge Status acknowledged => closed
2024-05-15 15:52 arogge Resolution open => suspended