[Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes. (but they are there!)

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Wunsch
I see there's another message with that subject already. My problem's a little different: the appendable volume /is/ there, but Bacula refuses to use it. The drive is BLOCKED, and I don't know how to make it proceed. I eventually gave up, and killed the job so the other outstanding jobs could at

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula with MSL G3 Series

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howto tell HP G3 to turn off "prevent media removal" ? I have search for a > solution, but not found it... yet. I hope you can help, Shot into the dark: Do you have AlwaysOpen = yes in the Device section of your bacula-sd.conf file? Operating systems tend to i

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes. (but they are there!)

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Mingus Dew wrote: > I hope someone answers your question. I've seen this same issue reported my > me and others with no admission that there is a bug. I personally can't find > anything wrong with my configuration. Could you check your bacula.log for > any errors in the tape jobs prior. I've no

Re: [Bacula-users] Assioate BAT w/ its config permanently / Default dir.conf

2008-11-10 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Paul Cable wrote: I can't tell you much about your other questions, but I can probably answer this one: > Question 1. > When trying to start BAT from the command line I have to specify with > the -c switch a configuration file every time. Is it possible to get > this to be automatic when I typ

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes. (but they are there!)

2008-11-10 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Mingus Dew wrote: > When I have this issue I do the following. > > 1. Make sure that the request for an "appendable volume" isn't legitimate. > It happens, tapes fill up and no more are available in the changer. > 2. Cancel any tape jobs. Let any disk jobs complete > 3. Stop bacula-dir, bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems appending to a Tape

2008-11-12 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Russell Sutherland wrote: > When trying to write/append some data to an existing labelled and > mounted tape I get: > > *messages > 12-Nov 16:56 backup-sd JobId 12120: Job > backup-data.2008-11-12_16.56.30 waiting. Cannot find any appendable > volumes. Looks quite close to a similar problem I