Hi Steve
A lot of people use Bacula and it works. Please stop trashing Bacula
and the devs. It is not productive to do that. Please post your conf
files so we can see if there is a configuration problem.
Brian
Steve Handy wrote:
> Tried mounting, it didn't work. (and by the way Backup Executive in no way
> compares to NetBackup)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:26 PM
> To: Steve Handy
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BLOCK issue where already created volumes
> not being read
>
>
>> I have an issue with Bacula. Here is the case. I Bacula setup on both
>> an Ubuntu Server machine and Solaris. The director is on Ubuntu and storage
>> server on Solaris. We have a LTO-180 Solaris tape library implemented. I
>> recently ran a label barcodes command which created volumes with the same
>> name as the barcodes: FCOM. This resulted in a default pool of volumes
>> FCOM01,.....FCOM20. I performed an update scan slots twice. I then moved
>> FCOM01-FCOM03 into a new pool i created: WindowsBackupServer Pool from the
>> default. Here are the tables:
>>
>> Default Pool:
>> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
>> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
>> |
>> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>> | 12 | FCOM04 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 104 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 13 | FCOM05 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 105 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 14 | FCOM06 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 106 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 15 | FCOM07 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 107 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 16 | FCOM08 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 108 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 17 | FCOM09 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 109 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 18 | FCOM10 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 110 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 19 | FCOM12 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 112 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 20 | FCOM13 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 113 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 21 | FCOM14 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 114 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 22 | FCOM15 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 115 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 23 | FCOM16 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 116 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 24 | FCOM17 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 117 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 25 | FCOM18 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 118 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 26 | FCOM19 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 119 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 27 | FCOM20 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 120 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>> Pool: Scratch
>> No results to list.
>> Pool: WindowsFileServerBackup
>> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
>> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
>> |
>> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>> | 10 | FCOM02 | Append | 1 | 129,024 | 1 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 102 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2009-02-11 14:13:08 |
>> | 11 | FCOM03 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 103 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> | 28 | FCOM01 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 |
>> 31,536,000 | 1 | 101 | 1 | LTO-2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
>> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
>>
>> So thinking that my new pool has already volumes created and ready to go, i
>> executed a run statement at the bconsole. No tape were in the tape device,
>> thus no mounts. After executing run, i stated yes to start the job. I then
>> received a strange message when i did status all:
>>
>> Device status:
>> Autochanger "Autochanger" with devices:
>> "Drive-1" (/dev/rmt/4cbn)
>> "Drive-2" (/dev/rmt/3cbn)
>> Device "Drive-1" (/dev/rmt/4cbn) is not open.
>> Device is BLOCKED waiting to mount a volume FCOM12
>> Pool: WindowsFileServerBackup
>> Media type: LTO-2
>> Drive 0 status unknown.
>>
>> I then loaded and unloaded the tape device from my Solaris machine and then
>> ran an update slots scan on Ubuntu from the bconsole.
>>
>> Now the error is
>> Device status:
>> Autochanger "Autochanger" with devices:
>> "Drive-1" (/dev/rmt/4cbn)
>> "Drive-2" (/dev/rmt/3cbn)
>> Device "Drive-1" (/dev/rmt/4cbn) is not open.
>> Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>> Pool: WindowsFileServerBackup
>> Media type: LTO-2
>> Drive 0 status unknown.
>>
>> Can someone please help? I already have volumes in the in the new pool which
>> i transfered with the update volumes command. Bacula should see those
>> volumes and not be asking to label a new volume.
>>
>
> Once the drive is blocked it will not see the tapes until you mount
> the drive again. Just issue a mount and it should fix itself.
>
>
>> Bacula is a nice program,
>> but i am starting to think due to its open source nature, it may be better
>> to simply spend money on NetBackup.
>>
>>
> I came from backup executive (early version of netbackup) to bacula
> because bacula is a much better product and has much better support.
>
> John
>
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