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From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula seems not to get mtx-changer output
To: Marco Carcano- Statusnobilis SA <marco.carcano AT statusnobilis DOT com>


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Marco Carcano- Statusnobilis SA
<marco.carcano AT statusnobilis DOT com> wrote:
> Hello everybody
>
> I hope that someone can help me:
>
> I'm trying to setup an HP MSL 2024 to work with bacula 5.0.0 (26 January
> 2010) - I installed it with yum using CentOS 6 base repository
>
> notice that I have already added bacula user to tape group and issued
> mtx-changer command on a shell logged as bacula user, and it works
>
> the really strange thing is that if a issue a label barcode command in
> bconsole it starts the label process, but the output of the process return
> errors as if mtx-changer output is not returned to bacula:
>
> here is the situation before issuing the label brcodes command - as you can
> see there is PT7785L3 loaded from slot 11 in Drive 0
>
> /usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/sg3 listall 0 /dev/nst0
> D:0:F:11:PT7785L3
> S:1:E
> S:2:E
> S:3:E
> S:4:E
> S:5:F:PT7783L3
> S:6:E
> S:7:E
> S:8:E
> S:9:F:PT7782L3
> S:10:E
> S:11:E
> S:12:E
> S:13:E
> S:14:E
> S:15:E
> S:16:E
> S:17:E
> S:18:E
> S:19:E
> S:20:E
> S:21:E
> S:22:E
> S:23:E
> S:24:E
>
> bacula correctly notice that the cartdrige in already in Drive 0 is from
> slot 11 and try to unload it, ... but got timeouts and ERR=Child died from
> signal 15: Termination
>
> anyway the cartdrige is actually unloaded from the drive:
>
> /usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/sg3 listall 0 /dev/nst0
> D:0:E
> S:1:E
> S:2:E
> S:3:E
> S:4:E
> S:5:F:PT7783L3
> S:6:E
> S:7:E
> S:8:E
> S:9:F:PT7782L3
> S:10:E
> S:11:F:PT7785L3
> S:12:E
> S:13:E
> S:14:E
> S:15:E
> S:16:E
> S:17:E
> S:18:E
> S:19:E
> S:20:E
> S:21:E
> S:22:E
> S:23:E
> S:24:E
>
> so it seems to me that mtx-changer is working but not sends it output to
> bacula
>
> any ideas? This actually is driving me crazy
>

Most likely you need to customize the mtx-changer script for your
archive. See if the mtx status command works.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/mtx

John


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