You didn't mention which version of Bacula you are using. I seem to recall that this was just a problem of incorrectly printing the slot number.
More recent versions of Bacula (2.0.x) print the details of why the script failed, which makes debugging these problems easier. On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:00, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hello, I had a strange problem this Saturday night on an LTO library. > Bacula was in a consistent state, after the Friday nightly backup. > The drive 0 was loaded with slot 4 (friday tape). > At saturday job startup, the associated volumes were correctly recycled, > and bacula started moving the tapes. After unloading the drive 0 into the > slot 4, it usually issue a load command to load the new volume. But this > time, as you can see, it tries to unload slot 5 just after unloading slot > 4!! Do you have any idea?! > 17-Feb 21:00 mail-dir: Start Backup JobId 175, > Job=officeJob.2007-02-17_21.00.00 17-Feb 21:00 mail-dir: There are no Jobs > associated with Volume "SABATO". Marking it purged. 17-Feb 21:00 mail-dir: > There are no Jobs associated with Volume "SABATO2". Marking it purged. > 17-Feb 21:00 mail-dir: Recycled volume "SABATO" > 17-Feb 20:56 iserver-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command. > 17-Feb 20:56 iserver-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot > 4. 17-Feb 20:56 iserver-sd: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 4, drive > 0" command. 17-Feb 20:58 iserver-sd: 3995 Bad autochanger "unload slot 5, > drive 0": ERR=Child exited with code 1. 17-Feb 20:58 iserver-sd: Please > mount Volume "SABATO" on Storage Device "QUANTUM" (/dev/rmt/1cbn) for Job > officeJob.2007-02-17_21.00.00 17-Feb 21:58 iserver-sd: Please mount Volume > "SABATO" on Storage Device "QUANTUM" (/dev/rmt/1cbn) for Job > officeJob.2007-02-17_21.00.00 17-Feb 23:58 iserver-sd: Please mount Volume > "SABATO" on Storage Device "QUANTUM" (/dev/rmt/1cbn) for Job > officeJob.2007-02-17_21.00.00 Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > http://www.sonicle.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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