Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] doesn't register loaded tape

2008-05-28 15:40:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] doesn't register loaded tape
From: Mark Nienberg <gmane AT tippingmar DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:39:42 -0700
John Drescher wrote:
> 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.

I've tried to issue a mount on the changer and that doesn't work (without a 
umount 
first).  I never thought of listing the drive too.  That is a good idea!
Mark


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