On Wednesday 16 August 2006 16:39, Rupert Finnigan wrote: > Hello, > > > > I wander if anyone could help - I've got a problem with Bacula. We've been > using Bacula for about three months or so now, with varying degrees of > success. Recently, I've simplified our configuration and have been having no > problems at all with our backups, until now. > > > > Bacula runs successfully, recognizes that a valid tape from the correct pool > is available in the Autoloader, loads the tape, runs the scripts, does the > backup, but then won't "release" the Drive. It appears that the drive locks > up, and when I stop the bacula-sd daemon I can't control the drive (Linux > tells me that it's not found in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. So, I basically > have to re-boot the server to get SCSI to realize it's there again. > > > > This is annoying! But, I can't work out why it would have changed. I've not > altered the configuration for ages. I though originally it was because the > backup size had got very close (if not exceeded) the size of the tape, but > after moving some files around it's not well below the tape size > (Tape=200GB, file=180GB). > > > > We're Redhat ES8 with a Quantum Superloader 3. > > > > Can anyone point me towards a solution/answer to this? I'd be grateful if > you could!
Well, tape drives don't (or shouldn't) ever show up in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. I'm not familiar with ES8, but since it is RedHat, the drives are probably controlled by udev. In the default configuration the SD never releases the drive because it is not a particularly good idea. If you shutdown the SD or modify your SD conf file appropriately (not recommended) Bacula will release the drive. Then it is simply a matter of having your udev setup correctly, which should be done by default. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rupert Finnigan > > > > *******************Confidentiality and Privilege Notice******************* > > The material contained in this message is privileged and confidential to > the addressee. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message or > responsible for delivery of the message to such person, you may not copy > or deliver this message to anyone, and you should destroy it and kindly > notify the sender by reply email. > > Information in this message that does not relate to the official business > of Weatherbeeta must be treated as neither given nor endorsed by Weatherbeeta. > Weatherbeeta, its employees, contractors or associates shall not be liable > for direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from transmission of this > message or any attachments > > Registered office address Greenway House, Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 6HW. Company number 3006765 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
