[Bacula-users] tape did not come out

[Natxo Asenjo]

Hi,

After some weeks where everything worked perfectly fine, yesterday the tape did not come out.

I am using a daily tape rotation as explained in the manual:

http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Backup_Strategies.html#SECTION000283000000000000000

The error I got is:

30-Jan 20:00 vpn-dir: Start Backup JobId 31, Job=NightlySave.2006-01-30_20.00.00
30-Jan 20:00 vpn-dir: Pruned 2 Jobs on Volume "maandag" from catalog.
30-Jan 20:00 vpn-dir: Recycled volume "maandag"
30-Jan 20:00 vpn-sd: NightlySave.2006-01-30_20.00.00 Fatal error: dev.c:387 dev.c:381 Unable to open device "Tape" (/dev/nst0): ERR=Read-only file system
30-Jan 20:00 vpn-sd: NightlySave.2006-01-30_20.00.00 Fatal error: device.c:299 Unable to open device "Tape" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:381 Unable to open device "Tape" (/dev/nst0): ERR=Read-only file system

30-Jan 20:00 vpn-fd: NightlySave.2006-01-30_20.00.00 Fatal error: job.c:1597 Bad response to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
, got 3903 Error append data

30-Jan 20:00 vpn-dir: NightlySave.2006-01-30_20.00.00 Error: Bacula 1.38.2 (20Nov05): 30-Jan-2006 20:00:47
  JobId:                  31
  Job:                    NightlySave.2006-01-30_20.00.00
  Backup Level:           Full
  Client:                 "vpn-fd" i686-pc-linux-gnu,suse,9.3
  FileSet:                "Full Set" 2006-01-10 20:00:02
  Pool:                   "MondayPool"
  Storage:                "Tape"
  Scheduled time:         30-Jan-2006 20:00:00
  Start time:             30-Jan-2006 20:00:02
  End time:               30-Jan-2006 20:00:47
  Priority:               10
  FD Files Written:       0
  SD Files Written:       0
  FD Bytes Written:       0
  SD Bytes Written:       0
  Rate:                   0.0 KB/s
  Software Compression:   None
  Volume name(s):        
  Volume Session Id:      31
  Volume Session Time:    1136896682
  Last Volume Bytes:      1
  Non-fatal FD errors:    0
  SD Errors:              0
  FD termination status:  Error
  SD termination status:  Error
  Termination:            *** Backup Error ***

I have just tried listing the media pool MondayPool

*list media pool=MondayPool
+---------+------------+-----------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
+---------+------------+-----------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
|       3 | maandag    | Recycle   |        1 |        0 |            0 |       1 |    0 |         1 | DDS-3     | 2006-01-23 21:27:25 |
+---------+------------+-----------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

Last week monday, with the same tape, (and the week before and the week before ...) everything went perfectly fine.

I honestly do not see what the error could be. My bacula-dir.conf is similar to the one in the example, if it is necessary I will post it to the list (I have not done so because the message is already quite long). Any help greatly appreciated.

--
Groeten,
J.Asenjo