Keep Prompting For Other Tape

[Skillet]

Hi All

Trying to configure tape backups on PBS but for some reason the server keeps prompting me for the initial backup tape.

For example. started the tape backups on Day-5 and that backup completes without any issues.

When inserting the following days tape, example Day-6, it prompts me to insert Day-5 again?

Coming from Backup Exec and creating media sets and schedules was not half this troublesome.

Not using a robot library so have a user change tapes daily. Using 31 tapes on a rotational basis.

Hope it makes sense and that someone can offer guidance on how to configure it so that there will be minimal user intervention necessary.

Kind Regards

 

[dcsapak]

can you post the output of

proxmox-tape pool list
proxmox-tape media list
proxmox-tape backup-job list

?

 

[Skillet]

can you post the output of

proxmox-tape pool list
proxmox-tape media list
proxmox-tape backup-job list

?

Hi Dominik

Thank you for your reply.


Really hope I am pasting in the correct formatting.

root@lmc-pbs-01:~# proxmox-tape pool list
┌─────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ name        │ allocation │ retention │ template │ encrypt │
╞═════════════╪════════════╪═══════════╪══════════╪═════════╡
│ LMC-POOL-01 │ continue   │ 6 months  │          │ no      │
└─────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────┘
root@lmc-pbs-01:~# proxmox-tape media list
┌────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬────────┬──────────┬──
│ label-text │ pool           │ media-set-name           │ seq-nr │ status   │ l
╞════════════╪════════════════╪══════════════════════════╪════════╪══════════╪══
│ DAY-       │ LMC-MEDPOOL-01 │ Thu Sep  9 15:01:16 2021 │      0 │ unknown  │ o
├────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┼──
│ DAY-8      │ LMC-MEDPOOL-01 │ Thu Sep  9 15:01:16 2021 │      0 │ unknown  │ o
├────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┼──
│ TEST       │ LMC-MEDPOOL-01 │ Mon Sep  6 20:49:26 2021 │      0 │ unknown  │ o
├────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┼──
│ DAY-16     │ LMC-POOL-01    │ Thu Sep 16 20:47:30 2021 │      0 │ full     │ o
├────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┼──
│ DAY-20     │ LMC-POOL-01    │ Thu Sep 16 20:47:30 2021 │      1 │ full     │ o
├────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┼──
│ DAY-5      │ LMC-POOL-01    │ Thu Sep 16 20:47:30 2021 │      2 │ full     │ o
├────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┼──
│ DAY-6      │ LMC-POOL-01    │ Thu Sep 16 20:47:30 2021 │      3 │ writable │ o
└────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴────────┴──────────┴──
root@lmc-pbs-01:~# proxmox-tape backup-job list
┌───────┬────────────┬─────────────┬────────────┬──────────┬────────────────────
│ id    │ store      │ pool        │ drive      │ schedule │                 nex
╞═══════╪════════════╪═════════════╪════════════╪══════════╪════════════════════
│ DAY20 │ LMC-PBS-01 │ LMC-POOL-01 │ LMC-TAP-01 │ daily    │ Fri Apr  8 00:00:00
└───────┴────────────┴─────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴────────────────────
root@lmc-pbs-01:~#

 

[dcsapak]

yes you have a single media pool with the allocation pool 'continue' so it continues the media-set forever
as long as there is space on the tapes, it will want the last one that is writiable (currently 'DAY-6' in your case)
maybe check out the docs about allocation and retention policies: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/tape-backup.html#

also check out our examples (currently only in git): https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-...39ecedcb2038770ef76;hb=refs/heads/master#l983

 

[Skillet]

yes you have a single media pool with the allocation pool 'continue' so it continues the media-set forever
as long as there is space on the tapes, it will want the last one that is writiable (currently 'DAY-6' in your case)
maybe check out the docs about allocation and retention policies: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/tape-backup.html#

also check out our examples (currently only in git): https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-...39ecedcb2038770ef76;hb=refs/heads/master#l983

Greatly appreciated Dominik.

I think I have come to grips on how to create the sets for my scenario and I am busy running my first "automated" backup at the moment.