On 7/19/2010 4:21 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 18/07/10, John Drescher (dresche...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> # btape -pv /dev/nst0 >>> >>> ? ?Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. >>> ? ?btape: butil.c:284 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing. >>> ? ?18-Jul 22:27 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" >>> command. >>> ? ?18-Jul 22:27 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result >>> is Slot 5. >>> >>> ? ?18-Jul 22:32 btape: Fatal Error at device.c:298 because: >>> ? ?dev open failed: dev.c:491 Unable to open device "LTO4-Drive1" >>> (/dev/nst0): ERR=Input/output error >>> >>> ? ?18-Jul 22:32 btape JobId 0: Fatal error: butil.c:193 Cannot open >>> "LTO4-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) > >>> # mt -f /dev/nst0 status >>> >>> ? ?/dev/nst0: Input/output error >>> >> >> Check if bacula-sd is still running. If so the mt command is expected to >> fail. > > I had stopped bacula-sd when I did the above. However I may have caused > a problem earlier (while still running bacula-sd) because I had a tape > labelled under v2.4.4 which had no catalogue after my upgrade, so I > attempted to use the "brute force" approach to write an end of file mark > on the tape as set out here: > http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#215
Oh.... your tapes should still be usable after the upgrade. I think you need to concentrate on that problem first. Ignore all others. > Is the best thing to do to: Your objective is missing from this post. What are you trying to accomplish? What is your goal? > * restart the tape library Do you mean power cycle the hardware? > * stop all bacula daemons Possibly only bacula-sd > * brute force and EOF to each tape with a previous label that I want to > re-use What is the goal here? losing tape content? > * start all bacula daemons To access the tape directly, usually all you need to do is umount it from from bconsole > * label each tape required, as before? > > Rory > -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
