You've probably already tried this, but I have had a problem
occasionally before of getting the device busy error when trying to use
mt-st, and just stopping the bacula daemons has gotten rid of it. Worth
a shot, anyhow, if you haven't tried already. Doesn't answer the rest
of your question, though.
-m
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 02.10.2005 17:50, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm still stuck on this. Any attempts to eject the tape with 'mt' or
'camcontrol' result in 'device busy' errors. Thus I assume that
bextract has a hold of the device and won't let the tape eject. Is
there some config or command line option that I need to add so
bextract will eject the tape at the end of each volume?
I'd really appreciate any thoughts, suggestions, or RTFM pointers as I
lost a couple drives and just want to put all the data stored on these
tapes back on my system. Unfortunately the catalog was lost as well.
Unfortunately, I don't remember any information usefule for you, and I
never tried bextract like that...
Now, I assume you're in sort of an emergency. You could try the
development version - there were some changes in drive locking and
release, and hopefully they also affect bextract. Or you use your
drive's "emergency eject" feature if it has one - the drives I know do
this after holding the eject button a long time.
An easier solution might be to bextract from the volumes one at a time,
ignore the problems at tape traversal, hope everything works, and then
restore the jobs crossing tape boundaries again.
Or you set up a "full" bacula install first and bscan all the tapes into
the catalog - that might take longer, though.
Arno
Thanks,
Drew
On 9/29/2005 12:03 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and using bextract 1.36.3 to restore multiple
tape volumes to a drive I lost. It's giving me the following message:
29-Sep 10:39 bextract: End of Volume at file 16 on device /dev/nsa0,
Volume
"TAPE-0003|TAPE-0004|TAPE-0005|TAPE-0006|TAPE-0010|TAPE-0011|TAPE-0012"
29-Sep 10:39 bextract: bextract Warning: Wrong Volume mounted on
device /dev/nsa0: Wanted TAPE-0004 have TAPE-0003
Mount Volume "TAPE-0004" on device /dev/nsa0 and press return when
ready:
OK, I understand it wants me to mount the next volume. However I can
not get the drive to eject the tape. It's an HP DLT-30 drive. I
press the eject button on the drive but get no response. Any
attempts to use the 'mt' program from FreeBSD result in a "device
busy" error. What should I try next?
Here's the relevant part of my storage daemon conf file:
---BEGIN---
Device {
Name = "HP DLT 30"
Media Type = DLT
Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
# From the port info:
# Due to lack of some features in the FreeBSD tape driver
# implementation you MUST add some OS dependent options to
# the bacula-sd.conf file:
Hardware End of Medium = no;
Backward Space Record = no;
Backward Space File = no;
# With 2 filemart at EOT (see man mt):
Fast Forward Space File = no;
BSF at EOM = yes;
TWO EOF = yes;
}
---END---
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Drew
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