Am 24.01.2011 um 16:25 schrieb John Drescher:
>
> Unload every tape before you shutdown the daemons.


Yes, that helps.



Am 25.01.2011 um 06:52 schrieb Jesper Krogh:
>
> I'be been told, by a tape library technichian, than LTO incorporates
> a small chip on the tapes, that will have an index of what and where
> stuff is on the tape. If the process gets unclean shut down (power- 
> failure
> sd-crash or similar) then then it will know that the chip isn't  
> current and
> have to scan the entire tape to update the chip before any actions
> can take place. This looks like the daemon is haning to the OS as
> is in fact taking way longer than 120s.
>
> That perfectly fits the cases where I see the above messages on
> my storage daemon.



This sounds interesting.

With this in mind: Is it a good idea keeping the tape online/mounted?

   AutomaticMount = yes;
   AlwaysOpen = yes;

I guess the own process will give the answer,
between risk estimation and the automation ...

Thx

PM



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