On 9/7/12 7:51 AM, "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:


>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Chris Ord <Chris.Ord AT digitalpictures.com DOT au>
>Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:10 PM
>Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula possibly confused about label
>To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
>
>
>John,
>that is the confusing part(see bold)
>
>Device "Drive_0" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is currently
>mounted.
>    Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume "VARCD003", <-waiting
>for tape
>       Pool:        ArcD
>       Media type:  LTO5
>    Slot 4 is loaded in drive 0. <- It's telling  me it's loaded
>I know the write protect is not on as the tape was written to
>previously on the last archive run.
>I know bacula 'knows' about the tape because it was used previously
>about a month ago.
>
>Anyway as I have labelled all devices upto about VARCD007 I would
>expect bacula at the very least to
>a) offer to label the tape because the barcode calls it VARCD003.
>b) tell me which tape is in fact loaded.
>Confusing to say the least.
>
>I suppose really is there a way to tell bacula that this is in fact
>the correct tape and carry on?
>
>Cheers
>Chris
>On 07/09/2012, at 12:53 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>
>sorry I should have been a bit more specific,
>
>the tape is mounted, both bacula and mtx thinks it's mounted. Bacula
>doesn't think the tape is a bacula archive(it is).
>
>
>
>I am not sure about bacula thinking the volume is mounted when the sd
>says it is not mounted however could the write protect be on?
>
>John
>
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>>>>>>>>

The key info here is the "BLOCKED" on the drive.  The tape may be there,
but bacula cannot complete the mount operation.  I've had similar
situations.  Within bconsole or bat, work with the unmount, release, and
mount commands.  It may take a couple of passes to get that "BLOCKED"
removed.

Patti Clark
Information International Associates, Inc.
Linux Administrator and subcontractor to:
Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory







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