On 12/8/2005 5:18 PM David Raine wrote:
I know this has been mentioned in the past, but I can't find anything
other than Kern indicating that one should run through the tutorial
(which I've done).
Bacula 1.38.2 on debian sarge, LTO-1 tape drive
When tape tape-0002 fills, I get a request to mount the next available
volume (tape-0003, it is pre-labelled), I put tape-0003 in, wait a
while then mount it. The mount succeeds but the backup does not
continue. status stor gives this message:
Device status:
Device "LTO-A" (/dev/st0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
Device is BLOCKED waiting for media.
Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
Positioned at File=0 Block=0
====
In Use Volume status:
tape-0003 on device "LTO-A" (/dev/st0)
====
Data spooling: 1 active jobs, 10,737,373,907 bytes; 27 total jobs,
10,737,438,491 max bytes/job.
Attr spooling: 1 active jobs, 0 bytes; 27 total jobs, 41,456,838 max
bytes.
What am I missing? I've tried re-mounting the tape a number of times,
unmounting and then remounting does the same... Baffled, worked thru
tutorial and still baffled.
Rgds
David
I'm using 1.36.3 and have gotten the same thing when inserting a tape
marked "Append". On my system, there is some sort of "status storage"
output "error". I can't remember the exact message. Something about
"File=16/0" I think. Anyway, it seems to me that Bacula tries to
position the tape to at the end of the current data so it can "Append"
from there. But things don't "match up" and thus Bacula marks the tape
with an "Error" status. I have yet to run btape to test my drive. It
might reveal my problem.
The workaround I've found for this is to use another tape if I need the
existing data. Or if not, relabel the tape after manually setting its
status to "Purged". However note that every time I relabel the tape, it
gets deleted from the catalog and thus I have to "add" it again.
HTH a little,
Drew
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