Re: [Bacula-users] Question about 2.4.0 and manual tape changes

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Mingus Dew <shon.stephens AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> I have an autochanger and its been running very well. However, from time to
> time a job will run larger than the tapes in the slots. I had this happen
> last night after just upgrading to 2.4.0 just the other day.
> I changed the tapes and issued a manual mount. This caused:
>
> 2008-06-27 06:37:35mt-back4.storage JobId 7775: Please mount Volume "A00009"
> or label a new one for:
>     Job:          Advisen_NAS_Weekly_Tape.2008-06-26_22.00.25
>     Storage:      "Ultrium-TD3" (/dev/rmt/0cbn)
>     Pool:         Advisen_Tapes
>     Media type:   LTO-3
> 2008-06-27 12:45:22mt-back4.storage JobId 7775: 3301 Issuing autochanger
> "loaded? drive 0" command.
> 2008-06-27 12:45:24mt-back4.storage JobId 7775: 3302 Autochanger "loaded?
> drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
> 2008-06-27 12:45:24mt-back4.storage JobId 7775: 3301 Issuing autochanger
> "loaded? drive 0" command.
> 2008-06-27 12:45:26mt-back4.storage JobId 7775: 3302 Autochanger "loaded?
> drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
> 2008-06-27 12:45:26mt-back4.storage JobId 7775: Error: Could not open device
> "Ultrium-TD3" (/dev/rmt/0cbn): ERR=dev.c:
> 432 Unable to open device "Ultrium-TD3" (/dev/rmt/0cbn): ERR=I/O error
>
> I was wondering if the cause of this was because I issued a mount after
> updating slots and then the job tried to issue a mount at the same time, or
> if this is related to the buggy manual tape code now in 2.4.0?
>
You probably need to add a delay after the load in the mtx-changer
script. There will be a part that suggests 15 or so seconds make that
2 minutes to start and see if this helps.

John

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