About a month ago we suffered a crash of one of our test servers where
we were using Bacula to backup a few machines before we implemented the
backup method company-wide. Unfortunately, the hard drive broke, yada
yada yada. What it comes down to is the following: I've installed
Bacula 1.38 (the version on the hard drive that foobared was 1.36) and
have had no problems with any tapes that do not contain a Bacula volume
or label. In other words, brand new, completely empty tapes work fine.
Ones that were previously used and have Bacula volumes on them cause the
director to complain about no appendable volume (obviously). I've run
the btape test command and restore and know nothing is actually wrong
with the tape drive.
I'd like to completely clear the tapes that had old Bacula volumes on
them to load them back in to Bacula as though they were never there or
at least have a working solution to get the tapes back in to Bacula.
However, I haven't found any information on this in the documentation or
the mailing list archives. I'm interested in knowing how to clear the
tapes or get them back into the system so they can be reused. If
there's a better solution than the ones I've listed (or if I've
completely missed something), please, let me know or point me in the
right direction.
Below is what I've tried so far and the system configuration in case it
helps any.
FreeBSD ****.microstrain.com 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #3:
Thu Nov 3 07:46:13 EST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIGER i386
Bacula 1.38
Tape Drive: HP SureStore DAT40
Things I've tried:
1. I mounted the drive and tried to delete the Volume, but obviously
it's not in the catalog so that's no help.
2. I've run bscan to try to put the Volume back into the catalog with
the following input and output.
$ /usr/local/bacula/sbin/bscan -V 11_10_05 -v -s -m -c
/usr/local/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nsa0
bscan: butil.c:263 Using device: "/dev/nsa0" for reading.
10-Nov 08:50 bscan: Ready to read from volume "11_10_05" on device
"DDS-4" (/dev/nsa0).
bscan: bscan.c:281 Using Database: bacula, User: bacula
bscan: bscan.c:405 Volume is prelabeled. This tape cannot be scanned.
Records added or updated in the catalog:
0 Media
0 Pool
0 Job
0 File
Here's a copy of the tape entry in my bacula-sd.conf file
Device {
Name = DDS-4
Description = "DDS-4 for FreeBSD"
Media Type = DDS-4
Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = yes
Offline On Unmount = no
Hardware End of Medium = no
BSF at EOM = yes
Backward Space Record = no
Fast Forward Space File = no
TWO EOF = yes
}
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