Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Apple Jack <marvinoid AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 1/3/09, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>> From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>> To: marvinoid AT yahoo DOT com
>> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 8:32 AM
>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Apple Jack
>> <marvinoid AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>> > Hi list,
>> >
>> > I have a recurring problem.
>> > 2 pools: poolA poolB
>> >
>> > 1. Overnight a job runs and does not find appendable
>> media for poolA (which is correct)
>> > 2. I cancel the job
>> > 3. I start a job that writes to poolB, for which there
>> are tapes in the autochanger
>> >
>> > In this scenario the director asks me to:
>> > Please use the "label"  command to create a
>> new Volume for:
>> >    Storage:      "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
>> >    Pool:         PoolB
>> >    Media type:   DLT-8000
>> >
>> > I tried update slots, which reads the correct labels.
>> But to no avail, I get:
>> > status storage=TapeLibrary_TL891
>> >
>> > Connecting to Storage daemon TapeLibrary_TL891 at
>> naja.example.com:9103
>> >
>> > naja.example.com-sd Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008)
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu debian lenny/sid
>> > Daemon started 02-Jan-09 18:12, 10 Jobs run since
>> started.
>> >  Heap: heap=462,848 smbytes=288,923 max_bytes=289,033
>> bufs=128 max_bufs=131
>> > Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 int32_t=4 int64_t=8
>> >
>> > Running Jobs:
>> > Writing: Incremental Backup job Dell_Windows_XP
>> JobId=153 Volume=""
>> >    pool="PoolB" device="Drive-1"
>> (/dev/nst0)
>> >    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>> >    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>> >    FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=5
>> > ====
>> > .......
>> > Device status:
>> > Autochanger "TL891" with devices:
>> >   "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
>> >   "Drive-2" (/dev/nst1)
>> > Device "FileStorage" is not open or does not
>> exist.
>> > Device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0) is not open.
>> >    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>> >       Pool:        PoolB
>> >       Media type:  DLT-8000
>> >    Drive 0 status unknown.
>> > Device "Drive-2" (/dev/nst1) is not open.
>> >    Drive 1 status unknown.
>> > ====
>> >
>> > Used Volume status:
>> > TBB022 on device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
>> >    Reader=0 writers=0 devres=1 volinuse=1
>> > ====
>> >
>> > ====
>> >
>> > Is there something I am overlooking or is this a bug?
>> >
>>
>> Can you post the output of list media
>>
>> John
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for looking at this!
> I have attached what you asked for, makes it easier to read.
>

It looks like the SD got confused after being blocked for PoolA. Try
the mount command and see if that fixes the problem.

John

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