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Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula

2010-02-12 09:26:15
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula
From: shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq931 AT googlemail DOT com>
To: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:40:42 +0000
Hi Thomas,

I left it running for ~12 hours, BAT was unresponsive, and the web
interface on the library was showing idle :-(

Is there a "better" way of doing a scan ?

Cheers

Arne

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> 
wrote:
> Am Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:28:13 +0000 schrieb shouldbe q931:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The environment is Centos 5.4 x86 with Bacula 5.0.0-1 built from srpms
>> (built as a non root user, and installed as root), with just the qwt and
>> wx parts from the epel repo, and the rest from the main Centos repo.
>>
>> [root@sp-mirror-02 ~]# uname -a
>> Linux sp-mirror-02.loewygroup.local 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed
>> Jan 20 08:16:13 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> [root@sp-mirror-02 ~]# rpm -qa | grep bacula bacula-docs-5.0.0-1
>> bacula-mysql-5.0.0-1
>> bacula-mtx-5.0.0-1
>> bacula-bat-5.0.0-1
>>
>> As can be seen from the below, mtx can see the changer. I can also see
>> the slots in BAT, but I'm unable to label any tapes, or run a backup as
>> Bacula (BAT) can't see the tapes in the library.
>
>> There are tapes in the library (I put them there), however they don't
>> have barcodes on them.
>>
>> The error I get is "No volumes found to lable, or no barcodes"
>
> did you mount a tape  before you tried to label it?
>
> * mount storage
> * <select your SuperLoader>
> * enter slotnumber
> * label
>
> with no labels you need to "update slots scan" everytime you change tapes
> (takes a really long time to scan all 16 slots).
>
> - Thomas
>
>
>
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