Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 14:38, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Better yet, try 1.37 and tell me what it does and what it should do. > > Between 1.36 and 1.37 a lot of things have changed. I believe that the > > current behavior is to zap the Slot number in the c

RE: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Tom Boyda
To: Arno Lehmann Cc: Kern Sibbald; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Tom Boyda Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Most certainly. The problem in this case might be to reproduce the situation

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: Better yet, try 1.37 and tell me what it does and what it should do. Between 1.36 and 1.37 a lot of things have changed. I believe that the current behavior is to zap the Slot number in the catalog, then to try another tape in the autoloader, and failing

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:55, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > If somone has transferred a tape into a slot that Bacula has loading, > > that will undoubtedly cause confusion, > > According to MTX documentation if that happens the tape will be loaded > into the ne

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote: Most certainly. The problem in this case might be to reproduce the situation - as far as I understood Tom, he didn't change the tape inventory, but the autochanger somehow lost track of the slots used. I heard that before, and, although seldom, some auto

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: If somone has transferred a tape into a slot that Bacula has loading, that will undoubtedly cause confusion, According to MTX documentation if that happens the tape will be loaded into the next highest available slot (with wraparound). This would caus

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Tom Boyda wrote: Is there something that can be done to the mtx-changer script so that it can return the tape to the correct slot? If MTX doesn't know, it'll unload the tape to the first available slot. If the slot that the tape was loaded from is now occupied, it will unl

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 04.10.2005 09:42, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 03 October 2005 23:52, Arno Lehmann wrote: ... The "right" solution would be that bacula before unloading a tape always verifies that the slot it has in the catalog is actually free and passes that slot as an argument to mtx-changer. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 03 October 2005 23:52, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 03.10.2005 22:29, Tom Boyda wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I ran into an issue over the weekend where my tape library didn't know > > which slot to return a tape in the drive. I have a Qualstar RLS-8236 > > tape library - 2 LTO tape dr

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with mtx-changer when library loses which slot for a tape

2005-10-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 03.10.2005 22:29, Tom Boyda wrote: Hello, I ran into an issue over the weekend where my tape library didn't know which slot to return a tape in the drive. I have a Qualstar RLS-8236 tape library - 2 LTO tape drives 36 tape slots. I believe mtx -f ... status for the drives returned "