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-sd > 4. Remove bacula-dir.state, bacula-sd.state > 5. Restart bacula-dir, bacula-sd > 6. Run canceled tape jobs.
Well, for me it was even sufficient to restart just bacula-sd, this unblocks the drive in turn. I also think I found the root of all evil that was eventually causing the hardware errors the changer reported (which in turn made bacula-sd block the drive), it was probably a line in the chio-bacula script my changer couldn't really stand. Anyway, I'd still be interested in learning how to unblock the drive /without/ cancelling the job, and restarting bacula-sd, i. e. a way to tell bacula-sd: "Hey, all the trouble is gone, the hardware is fixed again, please just continue now." -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
