> Reading the docs and experimenting has gotten me pretty far. I'm not
> having any problem backing up smallish jobs with spooling to disk and
> despooling to an LTO-4 drive in an overland arcvault12. But while
> backing up a 3TB RAID array, the first tape filled, and bacula is
> asking me to mount the next volume.
>
> 1) I was hoping that the next volume would be mounted w/o intervention
> at the console.
>
That is the way it is supposed to work and the way it works for me 99%
of the time..
>
> 2) umount; mount, fails.
>
> How I got here: After lots initial testing, I dropped all the catalog
> tables and recreated them. Then on the command line I rewound every
> tape and 'mt weof' on each one. Then I used "label barcodes" which
> seemed to work, as "list media" cave me 11 volumes labeled with what
> looked like tape bar codes (one slot in the library is reserved).
>
> So, how can I achieve 1) and what's going on with 2)?
>
> The system is FreeBSD 7.0 and library is an Overland ArcVault12 with a
> SCSI HP LTO-4 drive. Bacula version is 3.0.2 and the and it was an
> _in_situ_ freebsd port build on the machine that is running -dir and
> -sd
>
> Here is some console output:
> ===
> *list media
> Pool: Default
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes |
> VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
> LastWritten |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | 1 | AHK836L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 3 | AHK837L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 4 | AHK829L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 3 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 5 | AHK834L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 4 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 6 | AHK838L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 5 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 7 | AHK839L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 6 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 8 | AHK825L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 7 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 9 | AHK835L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 8 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 10 | AHK828L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 9 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 11 | AHK826L4 | Append | 1 | 64,512 |
> 0 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 10 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> | 12 | AHK827L4 | Full | 1 | 1,609,153,523,712 |
> 325 | 94,608,000 | 1 | 11 | 1 | LTO-4 |
> 2009-10-07 07:03:50 |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> Pool: Stage
> No results to list.
> Pool: BaculaCat
> +---------+----------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes |
> VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
> LastWritten |
> +---------+----------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | 13 | BaculaCat-0013 | Append | 1 | 224,487,416 |
> 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File |
> 2009-10-05 15:08:35 |
> +---------+----------------+-----------+---------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> You have messages.
> *messages
> 07-Oct 10:52 kf-nfs1-sd JobId 6: Please mount Volume "AHK836L4" or
> label a new one for:
> Job: R1.2009-10-05_15.48.33_05
> Storage: "LTO-4" (/dev/nsa0)
> Pool: Default
> Media type: LTO-4
> *umount
> The defined Storage resources are:
> 1: Disk
> 2: LTO-4
> Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
> 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 1, drive 0" command.
> 3001 Device "LTO-4" (/dev/nsa0) unmounted.
> You have messages.
> *messages
> 07-Oct 11:04 kf-nfs1-sd JobId 6: Please mount Volume "AHK836L4" or
> label a new one for:
> Job: R1.2009-10-05_15.48.33_05
> Storage: "LTO-4" (/dev/nsa0)
> Pool: Default
> Media type: LTO-4
> *mount
> The defined Storage resources are:
> 1: Disk
> 2: LTO-4
> Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
> Enter autochanger slot: 1
> 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
> 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
> 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 1, drive 0" command.
> 3305 Autochanger "load slot 1, drive 0", status is OK.
> 3905 Device "LTO-4" (/dev/nsa0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
> If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
I would run the btape tests that are in the manual to test the
operation of your autochanger. Some autochangers / operating systems
need the user to modify the mtxchanger script to work with their
changer.
> *
> === end of console output ===
>
> === part of sd.conf ===
> #
> # Overland ARCVault12
> #
> Device {
> Name = LTO-4
> Media Type = LTO-4
> Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> Maximum File Size = 5GB
> Offline On Unmount = no
> Hardware End of Medium = no
> BSF at EOM = yes
> Fast Forward Space File = yes
> TWO EOF = yes
> AutoChanger = yes
> Autoselect = yes
> Maximum Spool Size = 107374000000
> Spool Directory = /r1/.stage
> }
>
You may need to add Drive Index=0 to the above, although I could be
wrong. I have a two drive changer.
--
John M. Drescher
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