On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Stephan Jennewein <xt3 AT cccmz DOT de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> whenever a new job starts it demands to label a new tape, even if I labeled
> one yesterday which it also used yesterday. When I try to mount the tape of
> yesterday it tells me that there is no appendable tape. Why doesn't bacula
> use the tape from yesterday, yes it's in the right pool?
>
> The other question is why does bacula don't use one of the 20 tapes marked as
> recycle in the scratch pool?
>
> I tried to label the tapes with btape, but when I start btape it doesn't react
> on my commands. Do I have to kill all bacula processes before using btape or
> can I use btape in a productive environment (Well I know it's really
> critical, but the risk is ok).
>
> Stephan
>
> P.S. I'm using bacula 2.4.2
>

Can you start by posting the output of

list media pool=<WhateverPoolYouUse>

or if you only have 1 pool

list media

John

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