>>>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:04:48 -0700, velociraptor said:
>
> I'm having a weird problem with my tests of bacula for our install.
>
> For the most part everything was going well--my autochanger tests fine
> using btape as do the individual tapes drives, basic job defs, clients
> on two different OSes (Gentoo & RHEL AS 4), etc. My director's OS is
> Gentoo 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 using unmasked Bacula 2.0.3.
>
> In trying to get both tape drives to work without logically
> partitioning my tape library, I read in the archives that I needed to
> configure job definitions to use the autochanger rather than tape
> drives (which wasn't clear from the docs btw) in the director config,
> and also to have autochanger and tape drive entries for each drive in
> the sd config.
>
> So I did that, but now I am getting an error where the test backups won't run:
>
> 31-May 18:17 backup01-sd: monitor1-fd.2007-05-31_18.17.00 Fatal error:
> Device "LTOdrv-2" with MediaType "LTO Autochanger" requested by
> DIR not found in SD Device resources.
> 31-May 18:17 backup01-dir: monitor1-fd.2007-05-31_18.17.00 Fatal error:
> Storage daemon didn't accept Device "LTOdrv-2" because:
> 3924 Device "LTOdrv-2" not in SD Device resources.
>
> However, both drives *are* in the SD resources and bacula-sd has been
> restarted (several) times since it was added (e.g. the conf file
> syntax is correct).
>
> Here are my SD config stanzas:
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = DellTL4000
> Description = "Dell TL4000 Tape Library"
> Device = LTOdrv-1, LTOdrv-2
> Changer Command = "/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/sg2
>
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = LTOdrv-1 #
> Drive Index = 0
> Media Type = LTO-3
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> Changer Command = "/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/sg2
> AutoChanger = yes
> Maximum Spool Size = 32212254720
> Spool Directory = /bacula_tmp
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'"
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = LTOdrv-2
> Drive Index = 1
> Media Type = LTO-3
> Archive Device = /dev/nst1
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> Changer Command = "/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/sg2
> AutoChanger = yes
> Maximum Spool Size = 32212254720
> Spool Directory = /bacula_tmp
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'"
> }
>
> Definitions from bacula-dir:
>
> JobDefs {
> Name = "DefaultJob"
> Type = Backup
> Level = Incremental
> FileSet = "Gentoo Full Set"
> Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
> Storage = DellTL4000
> SpoolData = yes
> Messages = Standard
> Pool = Default
> Priority = 10
> }
>
> Storage {
> Name = DellTL4000
> Description = "Dell TL4000 Tape Library"
> Address = 10.1.1.100 # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
> SDPort = 9103
> MediaType = "LTO Autochanger"
> Device = LTOdrv-1, LTOdrv-2
> Autochanger = yes
> Password = "md5_hash" # passwd for Storage daemon
> }
>
> Storage {
> Name = LTOdrv-1
> Address = 10.1.1.100 # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "md5_hash" # passwd for Storage daemon
> Device = LTOdrv-1 # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
> Media Type = LTO-3 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
> Autochanger = yes # enable for autochanger device
> }
>
> Storage {
> Name = LTOdrv-2
> Address = 10.1.1.100 # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "md5_hash" # passwd for Storage daemon
> Device = LTOdrv-2 # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
> Media Type = LTO-3 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
> Autochanger = yes # enable for autochanger device
> }
>
> ====
> I've tried "Device = LTOdrv-1, LTOdrv-2" as well as one "Device =
> tape_name" for each. There's no weird characters in the conf files.
>
> Any suggestions? I can santize and post up my full conf files to
> pastebin if folks would like to look at the whole shebang.
>
> Also, I found that where bacula-dir *requires* a "MediaType" entry for
> the autochanger's Storage stanza, the "Autochanger" stanza in
> bacula-sd throws an error if you include a MediaType entry and the
> storage daemon will not start. This is an inconsistancy IMO, and
> directly conflicts with the documentation as far as I have been able
> to find (I haven't exhaustively read the documentation, but think I've
> covered the most pertinent portions).
>
> I appreciate any suggestions from folks, as testing was going well
> using just one tape drive and no autochanger definition.
I think Ryan is right about needing MediaType=LTO-3 in the bacula-dir Storage
resource.
Also I think you need to set bacula-dir Storage Device to DellTL4000 i.e. "the
Name directive contained in the Autochanger resource"
(http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/FileSet_Resource.html#6508).
__Martin
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