Hello, One thing to do if this situation occurs again is to do a "status storage" before doing the mount. That will give us some idea of what Volume Bacula thinks is loaded.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ran into an odd tape mount problem this morning. I'm using version > 2.0.1 of bacula on RHEL-4 in a configuration that's been fairly stable > for months now. Here's how events seem to have unfolded: > > - At 03:15, Bacula successfully unloaded drive 0 from a two-drive jukebox. > > - At 03:16, Bacula successfully unloaded volume A00102L3 from drive 1 > into slot 7 of the same jukebox. > > - By 03:19, Bacula had successfully loaded this same volume from slot > 7 into drive 0, which while not really necessary shouldn't hurt > anything. > > - After successfully loading volume A00102L3 from slot 7 into drive 0, > Bacula repeatidly queried the jukebox to verify that the correct > tape is loaded. Each time, Bacula receives an indication that the > correct volume is loaded. > > - After ten rapid-fire repetitions of this query, Bacula gives up, and > sends an "intervention required" email message asking that the tape > volume that is currently in drive 0 be mounted in drive 0. > > - At 10:25 I had looked the situation over and used the bconsole > program to issue a simple "mount" command, hitting "Return" in > response to the "Enter autochanger drive[0]: " and "Enter > autochanger slot:" prompts. > > - At this point, Bacula resumed operations, and the original stuck job > and all subsequent jobs ran without error. > > I saw a similar pattern about a month ago, but don't know what > triggers this situation or how to go about getting a better handle on > what might be causing it. The job log is included below, in case > anyone might have an idea of what's going on here. > > ---- > > 21-Feb 03:14 bubba-dir: Start Backup JobId 16238, > Job=footon.2007-02-21_00.45.14 21-Feb 03:15 bubba-sd: 3307 Issuing > autochanger "unload slot 37, drive 0" command. 21-Feb 03:16 bubba-sd: 3307 > Issuing autochanger "unload slot 7, drive 1" command. 21-Feb 03:18 > bubba-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 7, drive 0" command. 21-Feb > 03:19 bubba-sd: 3305 Autochanger "load slot 7, drive 0", status is OK. > 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. > 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot > 7. 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" > command. 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result > is Slot 7. [ ... seven additional repetitions snipped ... ] > 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. > 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot > 7. 21-Feb 03:19 bubba-sd: Please mount Volume "A00102L3" on Storage Device > "drive-0" (/dev/nst0) for Job footon.2007-02-21_00.45.14 21-Feb 04:24 > bubba-sd: Please mount Volume "A00102L3" on Storage Device "drive-0" > (/dev/nst0) for Job footon.2007-02-21_00.45.14 21-Feb 06:24 bubba-sd: > Please mount Volume "A00102L3" on Storage Device "drive-0" (/dev/nst0) for > Job footon.2007-02-21_00.45.14 21-Feb 10:24 bubba-sd: Please mount Volume > "A00102L3" on Storage Device "drive-0" (/dev/nst0) for Job > footon.2007-02-21_00.45.14 21-Feb 10:25 bubba-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger > "loaded? drive 0" command. 21-Feb 10:25 bubba-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? > drive 0", result is Slot 7. 21-Feb 10:25 bubba-sd: Volume "A00102L3" > previously written, moving to end of data. 21-Feb 10:26 bubba-sd: Ready to > append to end of Volume "A00102L3" at file=493. 21-Feb 10:26 bubba-sd: > Spooling data ... > 21-Feb 10:33 bubba-sd: Job write elapsed time = 00:06:48, Transfer rate = > 3.766 M bytes/second 21-Feb 10:33 bubba-sd: Committing spooled data to > Volume "A00102L3". Despooling 1,538,311,382 bytes ... 21-Feb 10:33 > bubba-sd: Despooling elapsed time = 00:00:31, Transfer rate = 49.62 M > bytes/second 21-Feb 10:33 bubba-sd: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. > Despooling 195,580 bytes ... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
