Can you send the full output of the label command.
list media
and your bacula-dir.conf (Passwords and hostname can be obscured).
Thanks -Jason
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:39 -0800, Justin Francesconi wrote:
> Well, it turns out there was an issue with the bacula-dir.conf as
> stated. It works fine and btape can mostly control the drive, except
> for every time I try to run a backup job to the tape, I get the
> following error:
>
> Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
>
> I have used both ./bconsole and ./btape to 'label' the tape. Each
> time I label it, it says it was successful. I have tried to rewind
> the tape, move the tape to the end of the medium, everything I can
> think of, and it keeps giving that same error. What am I missing
> here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason A. Kates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 9:47 AM
> To: Justin Francesconi
> Cc: 'bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula tape drive can test but not use
> for
> jobs
>
>
> 1st your conf files shouldn't be in /usr/local/bacula/bin
>
> 2nd your bacula-sd.conf may be fine it's the bacula-dir.conf file
> that
> you need to look at.
> -Jason
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:44 -0800, Justin Francesconi wrote:
> > Basically, this snippet from the console sums it all up:
> > -------------------------------------------
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./btape
> > -c /usr/local/bacula/bin/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
> > Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> > btape: butil.c:285 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
> > btape: btape.c:368 open device "SonyDrive" (/dev/nst0): OK
> > *
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./bacula start
> > Starting the Bacula Storage daemon
> > Starting the Bacula File daemon
> > Starting the Bacula Director daemon
> > 25-Feb 09:39 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:532
> > Config error: Could not find config Resource "storage" referenced
> on
> > line 44 : Storage = SonyDrive
> >
> >
> > : line 44, col 22 of
> > file /usr/local/bacula/bin/bacula-dir.conf
> > Storage = SonyDrive
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./btape
> > -c /usr/local/bacula/bin/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
> > Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> > btape: butil.c:285 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]#
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > So, after reboot, you can basically follow what happens - run
> bacula
> > tape test and it's able to communicate with the drive and provide
> the
> > * to run the command 'test', which I have done, and it worked fine.
> > However, as soon as I start bacula, it suddenly doesn't like the
> > sd.conf (which I thought needed to be correct anyways for btape to
> > work), and after that fails, btape no longer works. When I first
> try
> > to start bacula, I hear the tape drive briefly spin and then it
> > fails.
> >
> > What could be causing this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Justin Francesconi
> >
> >
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