On 18/07/10, John Drescher (drescherjm AT gmail DOT com) wrote:
> > # btape -pv /dev/nst0
> >
> > ? ?Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> > ? ?btape: butil.c:284 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
> > ? ?18-Jul 22:27 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" 
> > command.
> > ? ?18-Jul 22:27 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result 
> > is Slot 5.
> >
> > ? ?18-Jul 22:32 btape: Fatal Error at device.c:298 because:
> > ? ?dev open failed: dev.c:491 Unable to open device "LTO4-Drive1" 
> > (/dev/nst0): ERR=Input/output error
> >
> > ? ?18-Jul 22:32 btape JobId 0: Fatal error: butil.c:193 Cannot open 
> > "LTO4-Drive1" (/dev/nst0)

> > # mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> >
> > ? ?/dev/nst0: Input/output error
> >
> 
> Check if bacula-sd is still running. If so the mt command is expected to fail.

I had stopped bacula-sd when I did the above. However I may have caused
a problem earlier (while still running bacula-sd) because I had a tape
labelled under v2.4.4 which had no catalogue after my upgrade, so I
attempted to use the "brute force" approach to write an end of file mark
on the tape as set out here:
http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#215

Is the best thing to do to:
* restart the tape library
* stop all bacula daemons
* brute force and EOF to each tape with a previous label that I want to
  re-use
* start all bacula daemons
* label each tape required, as before?

Rory

-- 
Rory Campbell-Lange
rory AT campbell-lange DOT net

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