On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:07, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I am setting up a new installation using 1.38.3 built from src.rpm on a
> Fedora 3 system. The btape program finds the autochanger and it's slots
> OK. The mtx-changer script does as well if I use it manually
> (mtx-changer /dev/sg4 slots which correctly returns "30"). But
> bconsole fails every time. The message I get back is:
>
> Connecting to Director test:9101
> 1000 OK: test-dir Version: 1.38.3 (04 January 2006)
> Enter a period to cancel a command.
> *update slots
> Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
> Automatically selected Storage: AutoPak
> Enter autochanger drive[0]:
> Connecting to Storage daemon AutoPak at 192.168.0.7:9103 ...
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
> Device "AutoPak" has 0 slots.
> No slots in changer to scan.
>
>
> The relevant section from bacula-sd.conf is :
>
> #
> # An autochanger device with two drives
> #
> Autochanger {
> Name = AutoPak
> Device = Drive-1, Drive-2
> Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/sg4
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = Drive-1 #
> Drive Index = 0
> Media Type = VXA1
> Archive Device = /dev/nst1
> Changer Device = /dev/sg4
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> AutoChanger = yes
> Autoselect = yes
> # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = Drive-2 #
> Drive Index = 1
> Media Type = VXA1
> Archive Device = /dev/nst2
> Changer Device = /dev/sg4
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> AutoChanger = yes
> # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> }
>
> and from the director:
>
> # Definition of Ecrix VXA Tape library
> Storage {
> Name = "AutoPak"
> Address = 192.168.0.7
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = ""
> MediaType = VXA1
> Device = AutoPak
> Autochanger = yes
> }
>
> The btape autochanger test succeeded. It seems as if the bconsole
> application is not doing a correct read from the external mtx-changer
> script. So I edited the mtx-changer script to write to a temp file when
> the slots command is run. Nothing got written. So I added a line to
> write when the script gets opened but nothing was written.
>
> So it looks like the mtx-changer is not being touched.
More likely, there is a problem with paths (i.e. Bacula is using a different
path from the one you are using), or a problem of permissions ...
--
Best regards,
Kern
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