Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Couture
The SAS controller was working with an IBM library with LTO-4 with another computer running bacula 5.xxx. When the IBM died we decided that it was time to upgrade rather than repair as the LTO-4 was no longer large enough to backup everything. We never really looked into whether it was the HBA

Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-11 Thread Adam Nielsen
> I found another person with the very same symptoms and they resolved the > problem by changing out the SAS host adapter Wow that's weird that a SAS controller would be to blame! My library and drive are HP and they supply "HP Tape Tools" which you can use to run tests on the library (and d

Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Couture
I found another person with the very same symptoms and they resolved the problem by changing out the SAS host adapter I Note that both my bacula-dir and my bacula-sd conf files have a Storage section, with a Device section only in bacula-sd. Is this correct or should the Storage and Devic

Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-10 Thread Adam Nielsen
> As mentioned earlier, the command > > ./mtx-changer /dev/sg3 load 1 /dev/st0 0 > > actually put the desired tape into the drive, however > > ./mtx-changer /dev/sg3 unload 1 /dev/st0 0 > > returns the following error message This to me looks like the mtx-changer script is not able to talk to

Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Couture
I have made changes as suggested and things seem MUCH better, but not functional I no longer get error messages when typing label from bconsole As mentioned earlier, the command ./mtx-changer /dev/sg3 load 1 /dev/st0 0 actually put the desired tape into the drive, however ./mtx-changer /dev/

Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-09 Thread Adam Nielsen
> Automatically selected Storage: LTO-6 This seems to suggest that the Director is configured to use a device called "LTO-6". Care to post the bacula-dir.conf? I know you said there's no mention of "LTO-6" here, but perhaps you need to mention the storage device specifically? With your config n

Re: [Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-09 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 10/01/2019 14:04, Richard Couture wrote: Greetings I am upgrading from Bacula 5 to Bacula 7.4.3, since that is what Mageia 6.1 provides, Just build the latest version from source, after applying the patch, search the archives for details, it was found on Solaris. Relying on non-mainstream

[Bacula-users] How to LTO-8

2019-01-09 Thread Richard Couture
Greetings I am upgrading from Bacula 5 to Bacula 7.4.3, since that is what Mageia 6.1 provides, and from an IBM autoloader with LTO-4 to a Quantum scalar I3 with LTO-8 tape drive using BRAND NEW LTO-7 tapes, and after all is said and done, bacula tells me, when going to label a tape from bcons