> If I do a restart of the system with the correct tape loaded and then do a > "status storage" I invariably get this message: > > Device status: > Device "DDS-3" (/dev/nst0) is mounted with Volume="EPOL006" Pool="*unknown*" > Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0 > Positioned at File=0 Block=0 > Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0) is not open or does not exist. > Device "FileBackup" (/downloads/bacula-backups) is not open or does not exist. > ==== > > In Use Volume status: > EPOL006 on device "DDS-3" (/dev/nst0) > ==== > > Bacula has correctly read the volume as EPOL006 and clearly doesn't know which > pool it belongs to and has made a fatal guess of the storage device.
This status is normal till a job executes on the drive then the pool is figured out. I believe I see your problem. You have the same tape drive as two devices. This is very bad. Are there any special params needed to force the drive to use DDS3 mode versus DDS4 mode? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users