I’m having a similar issue. I purchased some new tapes but don’t see them in Bat or Bconsole. I put them into the drive and I suspected they would default to the Scratch Media Pool but no such luck.
From: Eric Chennells [mailto:eric AT zymeworks DOT com]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:03 PM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Bacula refusing to use existing tape and wants to label a fresh one
I have this problem on one of my tape drives, it is a single drive, no autoloader.
The job is partially completed and it needs a new tape, and it requests for me to label a new one. I have a tape that as far as I can see is perfect for the job, right pool, purged, yet when I mount it bacula just keeps telling me to label a new one.
I suspect I must have a configuration problem but am not sure where to look.
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10-Aug 08:28 whatever.lan-sd JobId 10649: Job Archive.2012-08-09_10.59.32_30 is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: "whatever.lan-internal-tape" (/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3500110a0011ad17e-nst)
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Listing from "list media", the tape is in the correct ArchivePool.
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| mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
| 88 | ZW1078L4 | Purged | 1 | 817,155,742,720 | 111 | 630,720,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-4 | 2012-05-12 18:03:46 |
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Bacula sd configuration file:
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WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
Pid Directory = "/var/run"
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 40
Name = whatever.nothing-dir
Name = whatever.lan-internal-tape
Description = HP Ultrium StorageWorks 1840
Archive Device = /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3500110a0011ad17e-nst
# Allow 800MB of spooling
Spool Directory = /mnt/localDrive/spool
Maximum Spool Size = 8000080110
Maximum block size = 131072
# The following options allow tape requests to be handled without
# interaction on the console. When a new tape is needed, the current
# one will be ejected. The drive will be polled until the requested
Maximum Open Wait = 1 day
Volume Poll Interval = 15 minutes
# Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
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