[Bacula-users] RE: Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media.

[Andrew Paterson]

Hi Evelyne,

    if bacula detects a tape is already labelled it refuses to write a new label (it is trying to protect you!).

All you have to do is use tar, dd or something else to write something to the tape to overwrite the existing bacula label before attempting to relabel.

 

You had better be really sure you want to "scratch" the tape before you do it tho!

 

Regards

 

Andrew R Paterson
Systems Engineer
DS Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Evelyne Cangini
Sent: 16 May 2005 4:19PM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media.

Hello,

I use an Exabyte EZ17 autoloader.7 tapes. I tested it. All was OK.
I cleaned the database (drop_bacula_tables + make_bacula_tables) after testing and I run a first job.

The bconsole command status dir displays the message waiting for an appendable Volume
The label commande fails because the tape has already be labeled during the precedent tests.
The bconsole command status storage displays the message Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media.

How can I unblock the device and append the Volume ?
During my tests, the Volume was automatically appended with the label command, which doesn't work now.

Thanks in advance.
Evelyne