Probably /dev/nst1 does not exist or has no tape mounted.
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 23:22, Richard White wrote:
> My system has one internal VXA-1 and an external RakPak, with two VXA-1
> drives. In earlier experiments with Bacula, all drives were available and
> had been successfully used, at least to lable tapes, if not to run backup
> jobs.
>
> I began experiencing difficulties with Bacula using one of the RakPak
> drives. Since then I have replaced SuSE ES 9.1 with RH 9.0, but the problem
> persists. If I try to mount a tape in the left drive on the RakPak, here is
> what Bacula tells me:
>
> Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
> 3999 Device "LeftDrive" not found
>
> Here are the pertinent parts of bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf:
>
> SD --
> Device {
> Name = LeftDrive
> Media Type = VXA-1
> Archive Device = /dev/nst1
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> }
>
> DIR --
> Storage {
> Name = Left
> Address = lbackup
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "[here is the password]"
> Device = LeftDrive
> Media Type = VXA-1
> }
>
> The InternalDrive and RightDrive, both of which work, are defined in the SD
> just like the LeftDrive, except that they have different names and use
> /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst2, respectively. Upon examination, I discovered that
> the line "Name = LeftDrive" did not end at the "e", but had a trailing
> space, so I removed it, then stopped Bacula and re-started it. It didn't
> make any difference.
>
> Tks n rgds,
> Richard White CNE6
> Network Engineer
> Mason County, Washington
> 360-427-5501
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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