People, PLEASE trim when quoting!

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, John Drescher wrote:

> >> I can tell you that my IMPORT/EXPORT slot does work correctly after a
> >> slight modification of the mtx-changer script. Although after I put a
> >> tape in it the first time I run update slots bacula says there are 23
> >> slots instead of 24 so it ignores slot 24. I run update slots a second
> >> time and all is well.
> >
> > What did your mtx-changer modification do?
> >
>
> dev6 bacula # cat mtx-changer.patch
> --- mtx-changer.old     2008-05-15 15:32:59.000000000 +0200
> +++ mtx-changer 2008-05-15 15:13:12.000000000 +0200
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
>  #     ${MTX} -f $ctl inventory
>        ${MTX} -f $ctl status >${TMPFILE}
>        rtn=$?
> -      cat ${TMPFILE} | grep " Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | awk
> "{print \$3 \$4}" | sed "s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//"
> +      cat ${TMPFILE} | sed "s/ IMPORT\/EXPORT//" | grep " Storage
> Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | awk "{print \$3 \$4}" | sed "s/Full
> *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//"
>  #
>  # If you have a VXA PacketLoader and the above does not work, try
>  #  turning it off and enabling the following line.
>
>
> This was added for bacula to recognize the barcode for slots labeled
> IMPORT/EXPORT. I kind of doubt that this is your issue.


I think this is quite dangerous and the reasoning is as follows:

If "update slots" is run while a tape from a I/O slot is loaded into the
drive then the drive will report "unknown" as the parent slot and from
that point Bacula doesn't know where to unload it - end result is an
effectively wedged drive.

I made a similar tweak to try and use the I/O slots and backed it out
for this reason.

Ideally the script would be tweaked to associate any "unknown" tapes
in drives with the I/O slots


AB




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