I see there's another message with that subject already.  My problem's
a little different: the appendable volume /is/ there, but Bacula
refuses to use it.  The drive is BLOCKED, and I don't know how to make
it proceed.  I eventually gave up, and killed the job so the other
outstanding jobs could at least proceed, but would like to know why
Bacula didn't really use the volumes, to avoid the problem in the
future.

The message is:

04-Nov 09:03 uriah-sd JobId 36: Job UriahHome.2008-11-04_03.03.24 waiting. 
Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
    Storage:      "Drive-1" (/dev/nsa0)
    Pool:         Home
    Media type:   DLT-7000

status stor says:

Device status:
Autochanger "L280" with devices:
   "Drive-1" (/dev/nsa0)
Device "Drive-1" (/dev/nsa0) is not open.
    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
       Pool:        Home
       Media type:  DLT-7000
    Drive 0 status unknown.

Yet there are two media available in the pool Home that are marked
"Append":

*list media
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
Pool: Default
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes    | VolFiles | 
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| 1       | uriah-001  | Append    | 1       | 14103097344 | 20       | 
31536000     | 1       | 1    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 2008-10-29 23:25:47 |
| 3       | uriah-003  | Append    | 1       | 31426375680 | 35       | 
31536000     | 1       | 3    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 2008-11-02 19:06:51 |
| 5       | uriah-005  | Append    | 1       | 64512       | 0        | 
31536000     | 1       | 5    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 0                   |
| 7       | uriah-007  | Append    | 1       | 64512       | 0        | 
31536000     | 1       | 7    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 0                   |
| 8       | uriah-008  | Append    | 1       | 64512       | 0        | 
31536000     | 1       | 8    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 0                   |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
Pool: Home
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes    | VolFiles | 
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| 2       | uriah-002  | Full      | 1       | 19375727616 | 22       | 
31536000     | 1       | 2    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 2008-11-02 03:29:38 |
| 4       | uriah-004  | Append    | 1       | 690213888   | 4        | 
31536000     | 1       | 4    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 2008-11-03 03:09:00 |
| 6       | uriah-006  | Append    | 1       | 64512       | 0        | 
31536000     | 1       | 6    | 1         | DLT-7000  | 0                   |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

I had to mark uriah-002 artificially "Full" because of the drive's
power vanishing before finishing to write the last job that went onto
the tape, so the tape is currently not really appendable anymore.  But
both, uriah-004 and uriah-006 should be OK to be written to, so what's
missing?

Since the drive was BLOCKED, unmount/mount did not do anything at all
(the changer script was not started), and even "update slots scan" did
not unblock it, even though it thoroughly scanned all the available
volume headers (and thus confirmed the volume status).

I did not attempt to relabel uriah-006 since I want it to continue
filling up medium uriah-004 first, until that one is really full.

--
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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