I think I can recount this accurately; again, it is a situation that came up before I was aware of it, so I'm not quite sure how I got there. I think I have cleared it up, so I thought I would post this for comment.
Last night after the FNI0016 tape would not mount, apparently due to a label problem, I ended up with one of the four tape drives blocked. A stat showed this message, and bacula would not use the drive. "Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted." After consulting the google oracle, the manual and list archives I did not find an exact answer to how to unblock it, but I think I finally figured it out. From a bacula console I manually mounted the relabeled FNI0016 tape into the blocked drive, which was successful. I will not know for certain until tomorrow morning, but the drive appears to be back in service now. My question is this: why did a problem with a particular tape cartridge block the tape drive? Do I understand correctly that this is what blocked the tape drive? Or is it that any user initiated umount blocks a tape drive? Sorry if this obvious or has a documented answer somewhere, I've just not been able to find it. Thanks again, one of these days I will be in a position to help answer someone else's questions. :-/ -- -- Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
