Arno, Thanks for your advice. I did the mt stuff to write over the tape label, and relabeled the tape. This morning, however, the tape had not been written to, i.e. the incremental nightly didn't run so I told bacula to run the job. It tells me the job is submitted but it doesn't show up in 'list jobs' and the tape doesn't show any activity. And, there are no bacula messages.
Any suggestions? Sol On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 13:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 07.11.2005 18:01, Sol Lederman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm going nuts with a Bacula installation I inherited. I've got a > > volume, with VolStatus=Append. This corresponds to a tape in my > > autoloader that I want to reuse as all the tapes are full and this is > > the oldest tape in the jukebox. > > > > I purged the db info for this tape and I get this message from Bacula: > > Oops. > > That was not the most clever idea... see below. > > > 06-Nov 23:07 root-sd: Job Backup_Catalog.2005-10-30_01.10.00 waiting. > > Cannot find any appendable volumes. > > Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: > > Storage: Compaq AIT 35 Autoloader > > Media type: AIT-1 > > Pool: Default > > > > If I try to label the tape Bacula tells me it's already labeled: > ... > > > > > Help!!!! What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do? I have looked at > > the Bacula manual and I'm still stuck. > > Unmount the drive from Bacula (should be unmounted now). > Make sure the right tape is loaded in the drive. > In a shell, issue a command like 'mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind; mt -f > /dev/nst0 weof' > This will overwrite the start of the tape in question and thus destroy > Bacula's tape label. Make sure you understand the consequences of using > mt before believing me anything :-) > > After that, use bconsole to label the tape. > > You can also use the add command to re-enter the volume into the catalog. > > The "right" way would have been to either let Bacula decide when it > wanst to use that volume (usually it does things right), to assist > Bacula by manually setting the volume status (command update volume in > Baculas console) or to prune or purge the volume. The point is that > Bacula refuses to use tapes that are labeled but don't exist in its catalog. > > From another point of view: Don't manually modify the catalog or use > the delete command unless you really know what you do ;-P > > Hope this helps, > > Arno > > > Thanks, > > Sol > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
