Hi,
On 6/30/2006 6:18 PM, Jeff Dickens wrote:
> I have an IBM VS160 tape drive.
>
> First I exercised the drive with tar & it seems to work fine.
>
> I added the following device definition to my bacula-sd.conf:
>
> Device {
> Name = VS160-1 #
> Media Type = VS160
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> }
Looks good so far.
> I then restarted the sd.
>
> I did "btape -c /usr/bin/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0"
>
> and got the
>
> Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> btape: btape.c:XXX Using device: /dev/nst0
>
> (I put in the XXX because I think it was a different line number)
>
> I don't think the asterisk prompt ever appeared. I typed "test" and hit
> return.
> Nothing happened for several minutes and the tape didn't move.
>
> Eventually I control-C'd out of it.
>
> Subsequent tape accesses (mt or tar) yield:
>
> /dev/nst0: Device or resource busy
Yup.
The SD holds the tape drive open ("AlwaysOpen = yes;") so no other
program can access it. Either unmount the device using bconsole, or stop
the SD to run other programs accessing the tape drive.
> I looked in my messages log and see this:
>
> Jun 30 11:36:43 otter kernel: st0: MTSETDRVBUFFER only allowed for root.
This is - more or less - only informational. Searching the list, you
will find many mails with this message, but you won't find any
indication that the reported limitation causes any real problems. AFAIK etc.
> Any ideas ? This tape drive is used nightly by Backup Edge and gets
> successful bit-level verifies of sets over 100GB.
>
> I'm thinking I'll have to reboot to get my tape drive back now.
No. Definitely not. Either 'kill `cat /var/run/bacula-sd.etc.`' or
'umount DEVICENAME' in bconsole, for example.
Arno
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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