Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tip: How to relabel an old tape without interrupting a running job that needs it

2009-07-07 06:48:11
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tip: How to relabel an old tape without interrupting a running job that needs it
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:14:20 +0100
>>>>> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:37:00 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
> Problem:
> 
> You have a running job which turns out to need one volume more than you
> anticipated.  You don't have another labelled tape ready.  You DO have
> some available tapes waiting to be relabelled, but they're volumes with
> a different label scheme from an earlier installation.
> 
> You can't use the label command because the tapes are already labelled.
>  You can't use btape to label them because the sd has your tape drive
> locked, and you can't release the tape drive without stopping the sd,
> which will interrupt the job.

Did you try the bconsole umount command?  That releases the drive for me
without stopping th sd.

__Martin

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