problem resolved: Here is the solution in case it helps someone else. With help from a private email from Sam De Francesco who pointed out that maybe there is a problem with tape writing, and help from a colleague here, I was able to pinpoint down the problem to .... need for a cleaning tape to clean the drive :-( . I did have a cleaning tape on slot 10 of the autochanger and i thought it was used automatically, maybe not.
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Stelios Kyriacou wrote: > > > I realized i needed to be a member to submit - so i just became a > member and i am resubmitting this email (i tried submitting 15 minutes ago > but > it went to the list administrator for approval) > > > I am a light user of bacula > > I have a bacula system that has been working for maybe 10 months now. We did a > shutdown of the server last friday without first stopping the bacula service > (should i?) and after we rebooted and started the bacula service I have a big > problem: bacula tapes do not seem to be recognized althouth already in the > database and > used. Although the right tape was mounted already , bacula gave this error > > 07-Aug 01:15 head-sd: Please mount Volume "B0000003" on Storage Device > "Exabyte" > for Job Client1.2005-08-07_01.05.00 > > Here i stopped bacula and i did a mtx status which seems to give the correct > results that B0000003 is in the tape drive. > > # mtx status > Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 10 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) > Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 3 Loaded):VolumeTag = B0000003 > > Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=B0000001 > Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=B0000002 > Storage Element 3:Empty:VolumeTag= > Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=B0000004 > Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=B0000005 > Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=B0000006 > Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=B0000007 > Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=B0000008 > Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=B0000009 > Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=CLNA0002 > > I tried another tape, B0000004, and with the same problem (now i tried mount > command just to see what it says): > > * mount > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: File > 2: Exabyte > Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 > 3905 Device /dev/nst0 open but no Bacula volume is mounted. > If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume. > > Any idea why already bacula-written tapes are not recognized anymore as such? > > I could maybe use btape to relabel the tapes but wanted to ask first. The > data > on the tapes is not so crucial i believe, so it maybe ok to start fresh but > still i would like to see what is wrong. > > More info: I use bacula 1.36.0 and an exabyte exabyte VXA2 PacketLoader 1x10 > 1U > Autoloader > > Thanks very much in advance for the help. > > -- - Stelios ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
