Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2008 23:59:59 Shad L. Lords wrote: >> Device status: >> Autochanger "SL-10K" with devices: >> "SL-10K-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) >> "SL-10K-Drive2" (/dev/nst1) >> Device "SL-10K-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) is not open. >> Drive 0 is not loaded. >> Device "SL-10K-Drive2" (/dev/nst1) is not open. >> Drive 1 is not loaded. >> ==== >> >> In Use Volume status: >> MA3004 on device "SL-10K-Drive2" (/dev/nst1) >> Reader=0 writers=0 devres=0 volinuse=0 >> WA3003 on device "SL-10K-Drive2" (/dev/nst1) >> Reader=0 writers=0 devres=0 volinuse=0 > > Just a note here, when looking at the above. What is significant is that all > the values are zero, which means that the tape is expected to be on that > device but is not currently in use. What is incorrect is that two different > volumes are listed with the same drive -- unless it is currently in the > process of mounting (acquiring) one, in which case, the non-used one will be > released when the new one is fully mounted ... at least in theory.
This is what was shown after unmounting the devices. What isn't shown is that when I was performing the 3rd backup in this test is that there was a 3rd volume "in use" on drive 2. I've seen as many as 10 "ghost" volumes tied to a drive before I restarted the sd. -Shad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
