Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?

2009-05-22 11:42:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: John Lockard <jlockard AT umich DOT edu>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:03:51 -0400
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM, John Lockard <jlockard AT umich DOT edu> 
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know I don't have full information here, but don't want to send along
> my full config as I'll guess that's overkill.
>
> 22-May 06:17 tibor-sd JobId 4223: Please mount Volume "100027L2" or label a 
> new one for:
>    Job:          Belobog-Data2-Users.2009-05-22_05.15.00_35
>    Storage:      "NEO-LTO-0" (/dev/nst0)
>    Pool:         Radev-Diff
>    Media type:   LTO-2
> 22-May 06:19 tibor-sd JobId 4209: Please mount Volume "000152L2" or label a 
> new one for:
>    Job:          BackupCatalog.2009-05-21_23.10.00_21
>    Storage:      "NEO-LTO-1" (/dev/nst1)
>    Pool:         Weekly-Tape-WH
>    Media type:   LTO-2
>
> I have a Overland Neo 4000 Tape Library with 57 slots and 3 tape drives.
> My config is set to Automount tapes when needed.  But, sometimes it doesn't
> and just sits there, waiting for me to manually load the requested tapes.
> I had two instances of that this morning.  Both tapes were in the Library
> and checking which tapes Bacula thought were loaded showed both of these
> tapes as being "In Changer".  I was able to easily do:
>  mount storage=Overland_Neo_4000 drive=0 slot=30
>  mount storage=Overland_Neo_4000 drive=1 slot=1
>
> Then my jobs continued running nicely.
>
> What would be the reasons that occasionally Bacula won't automount tapes
> which it knows are present?
>

One reason is if you umounted the previous tape.

John

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