[Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

Hello,

I'm having some issues with bacula.

This is a new install, I have not used bacula before. So far I've successfully backed up from a client to a file on the bacula server, now I'm trying to get autoloader working so I can backup to tape. I want to make it so all tapes or Volumes are a member of Default Pool.

I'm trying to label tapes and set them up so they're available in a Pool for backups. It appears that two slots are not recognized as containing bacula tapes and I'm not sure how to fix that. I think almost all of the tapes were used in our previous backup solution, so I don't know why these two slots are misbehaving. If I try the "label barcodes" command, it offers to label slots 1-6, and 8, but not the tapes in mystery slots 6 and 7.

Please let me know if I can supply more information, or if I should be posting somewhere else.

Regards,

Simon

command output:
=============
*status slots storage
The defined Storage resources are:
     1: File
     2: HP Autoloader
Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Storage daemon HP Autoloader at pmappp01.tpmcomm.com:9103 ...
3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
Device "HP-0" has 8 slots.
Connecting to Storage daemon HP Autoloader at pmappp01.tpmcomm.com:9103 ...
3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
Slot |   Volume Name    |   Status |     Media Type       |      Pool          |
------+------------------+-----------+----------------------+--------------------|
    1 |         TPMBU011 |    Append |                LTO-4 |            Default |
    2 |         TPMBU002 |    Append |                LTO-4 |            Default |
    3 |         TPMBU001 |    Append |                LTO-4 |            Default |
    4 |         TPMBU005 |    Append |                LTO-4 |            Default |
    5 |         TPMBU007 |    Append |                LTO-4 |            Default |
    6*|                  |         ? |                    ? |                  ? |
    7*|                  |         ? |                    ? |                  ? |
    8 |         TPMBU003 |    Append |                LTO-4 |            Default |

*label barcodes
The defined Storage resources are:
     1: File
     2: HP Autoloader
Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Storage daemon HP Autoloader at pmappp01.tpmcomm.com:9103 ...
3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
Device "HP-0" has 8 slots.
Connecting to Storage daemon HP Autoloader at pmappp01.tpmcomm.com:9103 ...
3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
The following Volumes will be labeled:
Slot Volume
==============
   1 TPMBU011
   2 TPMBU002
   3 TPMBU001
   4 TPMBU005
   5 TPMBU007
   8 TPMBU003

Details:

-CentOS 5.8
-Bacula 5.2.6
-Autochanger test successful
-tape drive is an HP G2 Autoloader with 1 drive, 8 slots
-there are 8 tapes in the Autoloader

Simon Tyler | Systems Administrator
TPM Communications | 416-408-2727 x286

simon AT tpmcomm DOT com

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