I suggest you attept to "mount" the drive through bconsole before giving up.
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:11, David Romerstein wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Alan Brown wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, David Romerstein wrote: > > > >> Yesterday was my first opportunity to get to the colo facility in which > >> these > >> devices sit, and I tried another tape swap - first, unmounted the tape in > >> the > >> drive, ejected it, inserted a new tape, labelled it 'xRaid1_3' (following > >> the > >> naming convention I'd established for the first two tapes, 'xRaid1' and > >> 'xRaid1_2'), and mounted it. > >> > >> There's been no activity since then, no data has been written to the new > >> tape. > > > > Did you add the new tape to the "Default" pool? > > > > 'list media pool' will tell you if you have or not. > > I didn't, specifically, but it was added automatically (apologies in > advance for the horrible, broken width-ness of the following): > > *list media pool > Automatically selected Pool: Default > +---------+---------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | > VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | > LastWritten | > +---------+---------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | 1 | TestVolume001 | Append | 1 | 44,430,673,369 | > 10 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | File | 2007-01-16 > 23:58:33 | > | 2 | xRaid1 | Full | 1 | 425,758,104,576 | > 427 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2007-01-11 > 00:37:49 | > | 3 | xRaid1_2 | Full | 1 | 425,739,202,560 | > 426 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2007-01-14 > 01:32:16 | > | 4 | xraid1_3 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | > 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-3 | 0000-00-00 > 00:00:00 | > +---------+---------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > > It's in the pool, enabled... but not written to. > > -- D > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users