Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > You cannot tell Bacula to load a cleaning tape without experiencing > these kinds of errors, because when the SD is told to > load a tape from a slot into a drive, the 'mtx-changer' script calls the > 'mtx' utility to load, then, once that returns OK, > the script calls `mt -f /tape/nodeid status` over and over (with > time/iteration limits and some sleep time between each call) > until it sees a "ONLINE" in the `mt status` output (in the case of a Linux > distribution). > > In the case of a cleaning tape, this "ONLINE" will never appear, and the > mtx-changer script will always time out and fail, > then return with errorlevel 1, and the SD will complain exactly as you have > demonstrated above.
I supposed that. Super clear! And thanks to all! > You have two choices for cleaning tape drives with Bacula: > - Manual: Issue a disable command to the drive in bconsole, then manually > load/unload a cleaning tape, then re-enable the drive. Only a note: you meant 'disable job(s)', right? 'disable [command to] the drive' seems not possible in bconsole, or i'm missing something... Generally speaking: be sure there's NO 'something' that (try to) manage the library while cleaning (so stopping the SD could be a, perhaps strong, way). Thanks! -- _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
