2011/2/11 Jeremiah D. Jester <jjest AT u.washington DOT edu>:
> I’m trying to determine that status of some of my tapes and I’m a little
> confused on the output. Anyone have any insight?
>
>
>
> Thanks,JJ
>
>
>
> [root@scrappy bacula]# ./bin/btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
>
> Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
>
> btape: butil.c:284 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
>
> 11-Feb 14:42 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0"
> command.
>
> 11-Feb 14:42 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is
> Slot 5.
>
> btape: btape.c:476 open device "Drive1" (/dev/nst0): OK
>
> *status dir
>
> Bacula status: file=0 block=0
>
> Device status: BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN file=0 block=0
>
> btape: btape.c:2133 Device status: 645. ERR=
>
> *readlabel
>
> btape: btape.c:525 Volume has no label.
>
>
>
> Volume Label:
>
> Id                : **error**VerNo             : 0
>
> VolName           :
>
> PrevVolName       :
>
> VolFile           : 0
>
> LabelType         : Unknown 0
>
> LabelSize         : 0
>
> PoolName          :
>
> MediaType         :
>
> PoolType          :
>
> HostName          :
>
> Date label written: -4712-01-01 at 00:00
>
> *

My best guess for this problem is these tapes were used with /dev/st0
instead of /dev/nst0 and that corrupted the tapes because of a non
expected rewind.

John

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