Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape BLOCKED waiting for.....

2011-07-12 05:43:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape BLOCKED waiting for.....
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:40:41 +0100
>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:35:15 -0400, Christian Tardif said:
> 
> On 11/07/2011 14:34, Christian Tardif wrote:
> > On 11/07/11 12:15 PM, Adrian Reyer wrote:
> >> Never tried it myself, but I have seen some documentation yesterday
> >> about labling tapes when needed by issuing 'unmount' first. Doesn't this
> >> resolve your 'blocked' status?
> >> ->
> >> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Brief_Tutorial.html#SECTION0016100000000000000000
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>    Adrian
> >
> > I'll give it a try tonight on a test environment but I think I've 
> > already tried that.
> >
> > I'll let you know.
> 
> Nope, this is not working. The tape drive is just not reacting at all... 
> If this is a feature, this should be renamed as a bug, as there MUST be 
> a way to push a label function even when the device is BLOCKED, waiting 
> for a tape to be mounted or labelled.
> 
> Luckily enough, I have the exact message I was talking about:
> 
> 11-Jul 16:08 localhost-sd JobId 11321: Please mount Volume "LTO-E" or label a 
> new one for:
>      Job:          fdld-E.2011-07-10_23.59.05_08
>      Storage:      "Ultrium-2" (/dev/nst2)
>      Pool:         E
>      Media type:   Ultrium2

Please post the output of running these commands in bconsole (with appropriate
responses):

unmount
<<insert a blank tape into the drive>>
label
mount

__Martin

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