> I think you're right that Bacula tracks this itself too, but > "mtx-changer /dev/ch0 loaded" is written to report the slot number > that's loaded into the drive itself. This is also how Bacula > interprets it. Anyway, I'll save my changes to this script until I've > finished testing them. > > On another note, I've discovered that I jumped the gun when concluding > that the sd hung without a tape. btape does indeed eat itself when the > there's no tape, but the sd was apparently just waiting for the > "Maximum Open Wait" window to expire before it would respond to status > requests. After five minutes of this: > ---- > *status storage > Automatically selected Storage: Tape > Connecting to Storage daemon Tape at 10.123.0.17:9103 > ---- > > I finally got a reply. Decreasing this window to 30 seconds makes it a > bit more palatable, though I have to test to make sure this isn't > going to cause other problems. > That will likely make all changer loads fail. Because bacula will terminate any load that takes longer than 30 seconds. I don't know about your archive but mine takes at least 90 seconds to find a slot grab the tape, put it in the drive and the drive to recognize the tape.
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