On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Chris Ord
<Chris.Ord AT digitalpictures.com DOT au> wrote:
> Dears,
>
> In the middle of a backup job bacula is asking for a tape it has labeled and 
> is registered correctly(I believe) in the database.
>
> Here's the relevant info
> Status gives me this:
>
> Running Jobs:
> Writing: Incremental Backup job DailyArchive2 JobId=182 Volume="VARCD003"
>     pool="ArcD" device="Drive_0" (/dev/nst0)
>     spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>     Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>     FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=5
> ====
>
> Device status:
> Autochanger "Changer01" with devices:
>    "Drive_0" (/dev/nst0)
> Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) is not open.
> Device "Drive_0" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is currently mounted.
>     Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume "VARCD003",
>        Pool:        ArcD
>        Media type:  LTO5
>     Slot 4 is loaded in drive 0.
>     Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
>     Positioned at File=0 Block=0
> ====
>
> Used Volume status:
> VARCD003 on device "Drive_0" (/dev/nst0)
>     Reader=0 writers=0 devres=1 volinuse=0
>
> List Volumes gives me this:
>
> 146 | VARCD003   | Append    |       1 | 1,040,640,685,056 |    1,061 |  
> 315,360,000 |       0 |    4 |         1 | LTO5      | 2012-08-14 03:58:04 |
>
> So it's loaded,
> it's used the tape,
> it's marked appendable
>
> yet bacula doesn't see it.
> I can't relabel the tape without removing the MediaId from the catalog and I 
> am concerned about wiping the job/data as it is a duplicate backup job and I 
> don't want the labelling to go out of sequence.
>
> The tape device is an HP 4048 dual head. Only one is used for bacula. I can 
> supply the configs but the only change to them in the last 3 months is the 
> schedule time so probably not relevent.
>
> sg_map and dmesg shows there's been no unscheduled reboot of the server, 
> neither has the scsi address of any of the devices changed.
> query with mtx confirms that that the barcodes are being read correctly and 
> bacula is in sync with the tape robot with respect to slot location of every 
> tape in the device.
>
> Any ideas how to resolve this with the least pain
>

Have you tried the mount command?

John

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