On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 22:18 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 19.09.2005 22:06, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > I am testing bacula at the moment, so it is not any serious production > > problem. > > > > After having finished a back-up correctly without any reported errors, > > the tape is still busy. I thought it might be doing a verify so I let it > > stay busy all day until I realised it could not have been a verify > > operation. But then is it normal that the tape remains busy and what > > should I do to unmount it? > > Er... what do you mean by "busy"? Is the "busy" light on, or can't you > acces the drive using a command like mt?
The busy light is on. > > In the first case, you should find out what programs are running. In the > latter case, use the console command 'umount' - that should help. > > Usually, but that depends on your SD configuration, a tape drive is > always open when the SD works with it. In that case, the driver of your > OS should lock the device against use by other programs, which then > report the drive as busy. Yes, I'll look over the SD config. I just copied the Linux definition of DDS-4 tape device but there may be more to it than that. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
