Curious if anyone has an idea on my little problem. Thanks!
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM, bwellsnc <bwell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, everything, didn't hit reply to all:
>
> Thanks Bill for getting back to me. The label that I have shown is what
> Bacula automatically labeled the tape. That I have set in on of my conf
> files. What I have done is tried to start over with the tapes. I purged
> all the jobs for it, deleted the volume for good measure, then I rewinded
> the tape and ran a mt -f /dev/st0 weof. I have now moved the tape, which I
> only have one tape in the total tape unit, back to slot 1. After I did all
> that, I ran the update slots command I got this message:
>
> Connecting to Storage daemon LTO4Tape at mystorageserver:9103 ...
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
> Device "DLT-S4" has 8 slots.
> Connecting to Storage daemon LTO4Tape at mystorageserver:9103 ...
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
> No Volumes found to label, or no barcodes.
>
> When I ran the label barcodes command, I received the same error as above.
> I am still convinced that this is something to do with my entries in the
> bacula-sd.conf for this unit. I think that is where the hangup is.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Bill Arlofski <waa-bac...@revpol.com>wrote:
>
>> bwellsnc I have several clients with working Quantum Superloader3 tape
>> libraries. I think I know exactly what your problem is. :)
>>
>> Since your mtx tests all work fine, and your bacula will backup to a tape
>> when
>> you manually load it in, here goes:
>>
>>
>> If you run "list media" I am guessing that you will also see that the "In
>> Changer" and "Slot" field for each of your volumes is "0" mening bacula
>> does
>> not believe it to be somewhere it can get it to load by itself.
>>
>> If you run the "update slots" command bacula should tell you what volumes
>> it
>> THINKS are in the slots which should also indicate that bacula does not
>> think
>> ANY of your media are in the Superloader.
>>
>> I have a feeling that you manually labeled your tapes instead of using the
>> barcodes, and bacula does now know what slot it is supposed to load to get
>> "Tape-0241" (for instance) into the drive.
>>
>> If you run the "label barcodes" command, bacula will automatically run
>> through
>> each tape and write a bacula tape label matching the tape's barcode for
>> each tape.
>>
>> Then, whenever you remove/replace tapes you will need to run the update
>> slots
>> command so that bacula can update the "Slot" and "in Changer" fields in
>> the
>> database for your media.
>>
>>
>> I usually run a job of type "Admin" each night where my clients manually
>> insert/remove media tot their Quantum Superloader3's that is configured
>> to
>> run before (higher priority) than the nightly jobs and this "admin" job
>> simply
>> runs a script that calls the "update slots" command so that bacula has
>> current/valid information regarding which tapes are in the Superloader and
>> which slot they are in.
>>
>> Here's my "UpDateSlots" job Definition:
>>
>> # ----------------
>> # Update Slots Job
>> # ----------------
>> Job {
>> Name = UpDateSlots
>> Client = backup-fd
>> Type = Admin
>> FileSet = None
>> Storage = DLT-V4
>> Schedule = UpDateSlots
>> Messages = Standard
>> Priority = 8
>> SpoolData = no
>> Pool = Default
>>
>> RunScript {
>> RunsWhen = Before
>> RunsOnClient = no
>> Fail Job On Error = no
>> Command = "/usr/local/sbin/runbefore-updateslots.sh"
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> And here is the /usr/local/sbin/runbefore-updateslots.sh script that I
>> use:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> #
>> # waa - 20091110
>> # --------------
>>
>> BC="/usr/sbin/bconsole"
>> CONF="/etc/bacula/bconsole.conf"
>> STORAGE="DLT-V4"
>>
>> $BC -c $CONF << WAAEOF
>> update slots storage=$STORAGE
>> quit
>> WAAEOF
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Arlofski
>> Reverse Polarity, LLC
>> http://www.revpol.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/10/10 07:23, bwellsnc wrote:
>> > Yes, I was able to move the tapes perfectly fine from the command line
>> using
>> > the mtx-changer script. This is the error if I have no tape in the
>> drive,
>> > but I have a tape in slot 1 of my autochanger:
>> >
>> > 10-Jun 07:12 myservername-sd JobId 806: Invalid slot=0 defined in
>> catalog
>> > for Volume "Tape-0241" on "DLT-S4" (/dev/st0). Manual load may be
>> required.
>> > 10-Jun 07:12 myservername-sd JobId 806: 3301 Issuing autochanger
>> "loaded?
>> > drive 0" command.
>> > *messages
>> > 10-Jun 07:12 myservername-sd JobId 806: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive
>> 0",
>> > result: nothing loaded.
>> > 10-Jun 07:12 myservername-sd JobId 806: 3301 Issuing autochanger
>> "loaded?
>> > drive 0" command.
>> > *messages
>> > 10-Jun 07:12 nmyservername-sd JobId 806: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive
>> 0",
>> > result: nothing loaded.
>> > 10-Jun 07:12 nmyservername-sd JobId 806: Warning: mount.c:221 Open
>> device
>> > "DLT-S4" (/dev/st0) Volume "Tape-0241" failed: ERR=dev.c:491 Unable to
>> open
>> > device "DLT-S4" (/dev/st0): ERR=No medium found
>> >
>> > But if I run the changer script from the command line:
>> >
>> > /etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/sg3 load 1 /dev/st0 0
>> >
>> > And then I run the backup just like before with the tape in the drive it
>> > runs fine. But once I start trying to backup another client, it unloads
>> the
>> > tape, moves it to slot 1 and then I get the error "3302 Autochanger
>> "loaded?
>> > drive 0""
>> >
>> >
>> > 2010/6/9 Norberto Meijome <numard...@gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> 2010/6/10 bwellsnc <bwell...@gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> Here is what I have setup for my conf's. I have my conf files in a
>> conf.d
>> >>> directory. I added this to my bacula-dir.conf file:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> Did you run all the suggested tests for mtx changer script , and did
>> they
>> >> all pass?
>> >> _________________________
>> >> {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
>> >>
>> >> "I detest people who take shortÂcuts rather than do things right,
>> because
>> >> they leave shit for the rest of us to clean up."
>> >> PHK
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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