Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Fibre Channel drives keep switching

2008-11-19 11:36:30
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fibre Channel drives keep switching
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Robert LeBlanc" <robert AT leblancnet DOT us>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:34:50 -0500
>This
> causes great problems with Bacula. What will happen is Bacula needs a
> tape in Drive0, but unload the tape in Drive1 into the slot for Drive0
> and load the correct tape into Drive1, then find that the wrong tape is
> in Drive0 and wait for a mount of the correct tape. I have to stop the
> SD, swap the /dev/st[01] entries, restart the SD, perform an 'update
> slots', after a few jobs crash, then they start working again. After the
> jobs run, I have to manually move tapes around to get them back into the
> correct slots and do another 'update slots'.
>

I see. I think the problem is mtx will load the tape into the first
real drive in the changer and with the /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst1
switched bacula will look for the tape in the wrong drive when
/dev/nst1 is the first drive in the changer.

John

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