Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-12 Thread Simon Tyler
AFAIK we didn't have issues at first either. I think eventually the glue started loosening up On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:44 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.comwrote: DO NOT PRINT YOUR OWN LABELS EVER I have for the last 100 or so tapes and I have had 0 issues with that. John

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-12 Thread Simon Tyler
All I can tell you is what happens when I don't use pre-printed labels. Change tapes update slots, label barcodes a random tape is not recognized do no tape change, take out magazine, reinsert tape in magazine update slots tape recognized This only happened with home made labels. Maybe I should

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-12 Thread Simon Tyler
No slot on my tapes for labels On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Glue? My labels slide into a slot. No sticking involved. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Simon Tyler si...@tpmcomm.com wrote: AFAIK we didn't have

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-11 Thread Simon Tyler
and intermittent, and I hope no one else encounters it, but just in case you do: DO NOT PRINT YOUR OWN LABELS EVER Thanks, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Nov 26, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Simon Tyler wrote: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Today I had some tapes

[Bacula-users] volume retention: how does it work?

2013-01-24 Thread Simon Tyler
been used in 30 days. How do I know which tapes are available for use? I thought the status would change to Append or something. Will it just automagically start selecting the oldest tapes available? Thanks, *Simon Tyler * | Systems Administrator TPM Communications | 416-408-2727 x286 si

[Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2012-11-26 Thread Simon Tyler
these tapes were definitely formatted or previously written to and recognized by bacula. Thanks, ** *Simon Tyler * | Systems Administrator TPM Communications | 416-408-2727 x286 si...@tpmcomm.com -- Monitor your

[Bacula-users] bacula holding my tapes hostage

2012-10-23 Thread Simon Tyler
still able to successfully backup, mount/unmount etc I don't see any other errors in the logs. I'm going to harass HP, I won't mention bacula. I thought I'd post to the list in case you've got any suggestions, I'd really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, *Simon Tyler * | Systems Administrator

[Bacula-users] FixedRe: bacula holding my tapes hostage

2012-10-23 Thread Simon Tyler
FYI The old backup software, Netvault was still set to start on boot. It must have locked the drive. I disconnected the Autoloader from the server, reset it, disabled Netvault and rebooted the server. All is good, bacula and I are back together. Thanks, *Simon Tyler * | Systems Administrator

[Bacula-users] Fwd: newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-10-03 Thread Simon Tyler
resending to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: Simon Tyler simon*at*tpmcomm.com Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool To: bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net, clarkpa*at*ornl.gov Hey Patti

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-10-03 Thread Simon Tyler
:* Simon Tyler [mailto:si...@tpmcomm.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:07 AM *To:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [Bacula-users] Fwd: newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool ** ** resending to the list -- Forwarded message -- From

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-10-01 Thread Simon Tyler
labels for the tapes, but no other information because they have not been labeled by bacula yet. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* Simon Tyler [mailto:si...@tpmcomm.com] *Sent:* Friday, September 28, 2012 3:43 PM *To:* Dan Langille *Cc:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-28 Thread Simon Tyler
OK Hopefully I'm not annoying anyone with my updates. Here is the latest: I deleted the 5.2.6 install and installed 5.2.12, like so: backup the config files etc. delete all tapes by rewind, writing eof, rewind each one do a: make uninstall of bacula make sure that everything is deleted. I did

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula trying to load tape that was removed:Re: newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-27 Thread Simon Tyler
Hello again, I sort of feel like I'm spamming this mailing list so I'll keep it short: I tried the 'update volumes' command to try to manually tell bacula that the tapes were in the autochanger. The catalog was aware of all the tapes but had some of them incorrectly marked as not in autochanger.

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-21 Thread Simon Tyler
for Volume TPMBU001 updated to reference slot 3. Catalog record for Volume TPMBU005 updated to reference slot 4. Catalog record for Volume TPMBU007 updated to reference slot 5. Catalog record for Volume TPMBU015 updated to reference slot 6. On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Simon Tyler si...@tpmcomm.com

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-17 Thread Simon Tyler
no idea what that might be and I'm not sure where to go from here, I'm open to suggestions. Thanks, On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Sep 14, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Simon Tyler wrote: Hi Gani, I tried different tapes, and then tried an: update slots scan

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-14 Thread Simon Tyler
. No VolName for Slot=7 InChanger set to zero. I'm going to try different tapes and see if it can read those barcodes, *Simon Tyler * | Systems Administrator TPM Communications | 416-408-2727 x286 si...@tpmcomm.com On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:38 PM, ganiuszka ganius...@gmail.com wrote: W dniu

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-14 Thread Simon Tyler
Hi Gani, I tried different tapes, and then tried an: update slots scan, but with the same results. I don't think it's the tapes, but they were used by previous backup software. Have I neglected to do something to get bacula to recognize these tapes? Thanks, *Simon Tyler * | Systems

[Bacula-users] newbie - problem labeling / adding tapes to pool

2012-09-05 Thread Simon Tyler
slots -there are 8 tapes in the Autoloader *Simon Tyler * | Systems Administrator TPM Communications | 416-408-2727 x286 si...@tpmcomm.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all