Thanks Blake,
You are correct, it seems when I run an unmount, the drive goes into this
state
Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
3604 JobId=25 device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0) is BLOCKED due to user
unmount.
Device status:
Autochanger "Autochanger" with devices:
"Drive-0" (/dev/nst0)
Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) is not open.
Device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0) is not open.
Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted.
Drive 0 status unknown.
If i restart the bacula-sd daemon, the status is now
Device status:
Autochanger "Autochanger" with devices:
"Drive-0" (/dev/nst0)
Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) is not open.
Device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0) is not open.
Drive 0 status unknown.
So that appears to be the problem. And my next question is, "release" is
the proper way to unmount a tape from the drive? It appears to work, I'm
just trying to understand the difference. Thanks a lot
Jay
On 10/23/07, Blake Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you run a "status storage" when this is occurring, I believe you will
> see that the drive is unmounted and offline by user. Mounting a tape, or
> instead using the "release" command to unmount tapes should solve your
> problem if this is the case.
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *jay
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:16 AM
> *To:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Bacula-users] Bacula-SD hang using IBM Ultrium 3581 Library
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a peculiar problem with an IBM Ultrium 3581 autochanger and the
> SD daemon. I have to restart the SD daemon after I unmount a tape, or the
> next job hangs and never starts.
>
> We currently have a single LTO2 drive in the library, and are running
> Bacula 2.2.5 on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 update 5 IBM server. I ran
> all the btape tests, including the multiple tape test for autochangers, and
> they all worked flawlessly. Not a single problem or error reported. I am
> able to use the mtx script and mt successfully as well. Mtx reports all the
> proper tapes in the library, and I can mount a tape and WEOF and REWIND it
> using mt. Things look great at this point. Next, I ran "label barcodes"
> and it labeled all the tapes in the library properly. Again, no problems.
> I decided at this point to modify the "Full OS Set" backup for our
> environment and run some tests. I can successfully run the backup the first
> time. It pulls a tape from the proper pool inside the library, backup
> works. But if I unmount the tape in bconsole, and try and run the same
> backup again, it hangs. Nothing happens. I have waited several hours and
> nothing ever times out. I finally have to cancel the job manually. I
> discovered that by restarting bacula-sd that I can then re-run the job
> immediately without any problems.
>
> I'm not sure what could be causing this, or how to even troubleshoot.
> Things seem to work great during all tests and doing a backup, Bacula just
> doesn't like it when I unmount a tape manually.
>
> Could someone offer some advice or debugging steps I could take to figure
> this out? Below is a copy of my bacula-sd.conf file. I can post other
> config files if I need to. Thanks
>
> Jay
>
>
> ---- bacula-sd.conf ---
>
> Storage {
> Name = server1-sd
> SDPort = 9103
> WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
> Pid Directory = "/var/run"
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
> SDAddress = 192.168.1.20
> }
>
> Director {
> Name = server1-dir
> Password = "xxxx1234xxxx"
> }
>
> Director {
> Name = server1-mon
> Password = "xxxx1234xxxx"
> Monitor = yes
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = FileStorage
> Media Type = File
> Archive Device = /tmp
> LabelMedia = yes;
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> RemovableMedia = no;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = Autochanger
> Device = Drive-0
> Changer Device = /dev/sg1
> Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = Drive-0
> Drive Index = 0
> Media Type = LTO2
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no
> AutoChanger = yes
> }
>
> Messages {
> Name = Standard
> director = server1-dir = all
> }
>
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