Hi Alex, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:43:53AM -0500, Alex Chekholko wrote:
> > I'm having trouble using bscan to recover the catalog data from a tape > > which was purged by accident. > > > > I get the following output: > > > [snip] > > "MJR263L3" on "Superloader-Drive" (/dev/nst0). Manual load my be > > required. > > 22-Feb 17:04 bscan JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" > > command. > > 22-Feb 17:04 bscan JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: > > nothing loaded. > > > > Are you sure the tape was loaded as you expect? Yes, the tape is loaded. When I tried using bscan earlier, it only worked when the tape was loaded. > If you're worried about a lower-level problem, use 'mt -f /dev/nstX > status' and 'tapeinfo -f /dev/sgX' to see the status of the drive. > > Then you can try something simple like 'dd if=/dev/st0 of=/dev/null' > to see if that causes any error. I'll try that later. Had to powercycle the autoloader as well as the server. :-( Major SCSI hanging... Maybe there's a fixed block size issue? I'm not really sure what went wrong but some time ago I suddenly had to fiddle with "mt setblk" etc. or Bacula could not read it's volume labels. Thanks, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
