Bacula-users

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

2009-05-22 12:04:28
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?
From: John Lockard <jlockard AT umich DOT edu>
To: bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:58:44 -0400
And if I mounted a tape immediately after and also made sure
that automout was set to yes?  Whenever I unmount a tape I
always make sure to mount another in it's stead.

I'll dig through previous and current job and daemon messages
when I get back to my normal office.

-John

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:03:51AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

-- 
"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." - Ansel Adams
-------------------------------------------------------------------
         John M. Lockard |  U of Michigan - School of Information
 Unix and Security Admin |      1214 SI North - 1075 Beal Ave.
      jlockard AT umich DOT edu |        Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2112
 www.umich.edu/~jlockard |     734-615-8776 | 734-647-8045 FAX
-------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT
is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet
the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & 
iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian
Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com 
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users