Fwd: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automatically

[Christian Theune]

(Forwarding message, as I hit the wrong button earliert)

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From: Christian Theune < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Oct 10, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automatically
To: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Hi,

On 10/8/05, Arno Lehmann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I don't know if I understood you correctly, so...
Do you say that the autochanger works sometimes, or that the autochanger
never works?

The hardware is fine. The autochanger itself works. The mtx script also always works. (At least when beeing invoked by me manually.)

It usually ends up that I have to:

bconsole: unmount
mtx-changer ... unload ...
mtx-changer ... load ...
bconsole: mount

(which is supposed to happen automatically ...)

> It tends to send out an
> "operator intervention needed" mail and wants me to change the tape.
> Once that happened, it keeps asking me for changing the tapes. Sometimes
> a restart helps.
>
> I wasn't able to find any information about this in the list archives or
> on google, and the message log doesn't mention any problem, except
> asking every now and then for a new tape.
>
> Any ideas?

Configuration? Hardware issue? Debug output from SD and mtx-changer?

I don't think there is a hardware issue.

I'll attach some of my configuration here.

I'll try to find out how to enable debug output for SD and mtx-changer.

Best regards,
Christian

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