Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Tape.

2014-12-23 Thread Bryn Hughes
EXTREMELY unlikely that it is cable related - those errors would show up in dmesg as SCSI/SAS/FC/whatever errors, not as tape drive hardware errors. All of those transports have their own error detection/correction; the drive will never get a corrupted signal from the HBA or vice versa. Very m

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Tape.

2014-12-23 Thread Clark, Patricia A.
Dirt is not the issue unless you are operating in a dirty environment. There is something wrong with either the tape drive itself or the connection to the drive. The connection could be the cable or the HBA on the computer. There are likely error messages in your logs that will help with the diag

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-27 Thread Dan Langille
On 27 Apr 2006 at 10:24, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > > > I bet you forgot to stop Bacula before using btape. > > > > bacula-sd in particular. I bet it's using the tape. > > releasing/unmounting the tape means Bacula-sd doesn't need to be stopped, > but one MUS

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Dan Langille wrote: I bet you forgot to stop Bacula before using btape. bacula-sd in particular. I bet it's using the tape. releasing/unmounting the tape means Bacula-sd doesn't need to be stopped, but one MUST remember to remount afterwards. AB

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi Bill, I am such a moron. The IP addresses did not match - ARG!! It now works 2) Ensure that the bacula-dir.conf and the bconsole.conf files have the same shared secret for console access - check to ensure that names, ports, and IP addresses match as well Thanks for all of your hel

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi Bill, Thanks for your all your help - you are absolutely right too many things going on. I am at the location with the server and when I run bconsole -d100 here is what I get: login as: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Wed Apr 26 16:45:52 2006 from 192.168.1.37 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Langille
On 26 Apr 2006 at 14:17, Chuck Bunn wrote: > Hi, > > I have done a './bacula stop' and a 'killall bconsole'is there something > else I have to do before running './bconsole'. Also I am using putty to > control bconsole through an SSH connection. I have tried mapping a port > to 9101 via Putty

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:17:26 -0600 Chuck Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have done a './bacula stop' and a 'killall bconsole'is there something > else I have to do before running './bconsole'. Also I am using putty to > control bconsole through an SSH connection. I have tried mappin

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, I have done a './bacula stop' and a 'killall bconsole'is there something else I have to do before running './bconsole'. Also I am using putty to control bconsole through an SSH connection. I have tried mapping a port to 9101 via Putty but that did not help. Does bconsole only work on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Langille
On 26 Apr 2006 at 13:44, Chuck Bunn wrote: > That was it I forgot to stop bacula and I had the tape open in the > config file. Now btape works. But now./bconsole hangs (ARG!!!) Is bacula-dir running? Does a telnet to the host on port (whatever it's running on) connect? -- Dan Langille : Softw

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, That was it I forgot to stop bacula and I had the tape open in the config file. Now btape works. But now./bconsole hangs (ARG!!!) Thanks --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quick

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 4/26/2006 8:13 PM, Chuck Bunn wrote: Hi Dan, Here is the status I am getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cd /etc/bacula [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# btape -v DAT-72 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:272 Using device: "DAT-72" for writing. 26-Apr 10:49 btape: btape Fatal e

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Bunn wrote: Hi Dan, Here is the status I am getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cd /etc/bacula [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# btape -v DAT-72 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:272 Using device: "DAT-72" for writing. 26-Apr 10:49 bta

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Langille
On 26 Apr 2006 at 12:13, Chuck Bunn wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Here is the status I am getting: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cd /etc/bacula > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# btape -v DAT-72 > Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. > btape: butil.c:272 Using device: "DAT-72" for writing. > 26-Apr 10:49 btape: b

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi Dan, Here is the status I am getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cd /etc/bacula [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# btape -v DAT-72 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:272 Using device: "DAT-72" for writing. 26-Apr 10:49 btape: btape Fatal error: dev.c:362 dev.c:356 Unable to open device

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape drive showing busy.

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Langille
On 26 Apr 2006 at 10:44, Chuck Bunn wrote: > I ran btape and tested my tape drive and everything was fine. I > updated Bacula to the latest version 1.38.8 and now my tape drive > always shows that it is busy. Can someone make some suggestions on > what I might to to resolve this? Please elaborat

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Russell Howe
Ante KaramatiÄ wrote: > > Hm... I missed that. So, if I created Volumes with Volume Retention = > 120, and then just changed that to 6, it wouldn't work? I have to > recreate Volumes. If that's the problem, then great... It's easy to > fix :) You don't need to recreate volumes, just update the c

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Ante Karamatić
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:09 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: > And pay attention to the relevant part of the documentation which states > that these parameters only get applied at volume creation time. Once you > have created the volume, you need to update the database to change these > parameters. Deta

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 15:09, Russell Howe wrote: > Alan Brown wrote: > > look at the following parameters in bacula-dir.conf > > > > File Retention > > Job Retention > > Volume Retention > > And pay attention to the relevant part of the documentation which states > that these parameters only get

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Russell Howe
Alan Brown wrote: > look at the following parameters in bacula-dir.conf > > File Retention > Job Retention > Volume Retention And pay attention to the relevant part of the documentation which states that these parameters only get applied at volume creation time. Once you have created the volume,

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Ante Karamatić
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > look at the following parameters in bacula-dir.conf I did... Couple of times :) > File Retention > Job Retention > Volume Retention I have: Volume Retention = 6 days. That should prune volumes after 6 days, right? I do have AutoPrune = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Ante [iso-8859-2] Karamati^G wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:12 +0200, Ante Karamatiÿÿ wrote: What am I missing? I would like it to take oldest Volume or/and to mark Volumes older than 6 days as Purged/Recycle. Ah... Nobody? ;..( look at the following parameters in bacula-dir.c

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-25 Thread Ante Karamatić
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:12 +0200, Ante KaramatiÄ wrote: > What am I missing? I would like it to take oldest Volume or/and to mark > Volumes older than 6 days as Purged/Recycle. Ah... Nobody? ;..( -- Ante Karamatic|--|ivoks(@)grad.hr|--|PGP: D3BDA225 http://master.grad.hr/~ivoks/|--|ICQ: 646317