On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Mark Nienberg <gmane AT tippingmar DOT com> 
wrote:
> Maria McKinley wrote:
>
>>
>> So, the tape is in slot 9, bacula sees it in slot 9, loads slot 9, but
>> then thinks it hasn't loaded it. Bacula had successfully loaded and used
>> several tapes before this, the only unusual thing about this tape was
>> that bacula had moved it from the Scratch pool.
>
> This happens to me sometimes too, even when it is not a scratch tape.  If I 
> use
> bconsole to do a umount, followed by a mount, the tape will be recognized on 
> the
> second try and the backup will continue.
>
For me when the few times that has happened with my Exabyte Magnum224
all that was needed was to issue a mount on the drive. And yes I do
mean drive I have both drives and the autochanger defined in my
bacula-dir.conf so all 3 show up as storage devices.

John

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