John Drescher wrote: >> 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?
No, there aren't. So I should keep the two pools but have one storage device only. I that what you propose? -- Erik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
