On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Eric Chennells wrote:
> I have this problem on one of my tape drives, it is a single drive, no
> autoloader.
>
> The job is partially completed and it needs a new tape, and it requests for
> me to label a new one. I have a tape that as far as I can see is perfect for
> the job, right pool, purged, yet when I mount it bacula just keeps telling me
> to label a new one.
>
> I suspect I must have a configuration problem but am not sure where to look.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 10-Aug 08:28 whatever.lan-sd JobId 10649: Job Archive.2012-08-09_10.59.32_30
> is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
When you tried the label command, what happened?
> Storage: "whatever.lan-internal-tape"
> (/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3500110a0011ad17e-nst)
> Pool: ArchivePool
> Media type: LTO-4
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Listing from "list media", the tape is in the correct ArchivePool.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles |
> volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
> | 88 | ZW1078L4 | Purged | 1 | 817,155,742,720 | 111 |
> 630,720,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-4 | 2012-05-12 18:03:46 |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bacula sd configuration file:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Storage {
> Name = whatever.lan-sd
> SDPort = 9103
> WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
> Pid Directory = "/var/run"
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 40
> }
>
> Director {
> Name = whatever.nothing-dir
> Password = ""
> }
>
>
> Device {
> Name = whatever.lan-internal-tape
> Description = HP Ultrium StorageWorks 1840
> Device Type = Tape
> Media Type = LTO-4
> Archive Device = /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3500110a0011ad17e-nst
>
> AlwaysOpen = yes
> RemovableMedia = yes
> RandomAccess = no
>
> # Allow 800MB of spooling
> Spool Directory = /mnt/localDrive/spool
> Maximum Spool Size = 8000080110
> Maximum block size = 131072
>
> # The following options allow tape requests to be handled without
> # interaction on the console. When a new tape is needed, the current
> # one will be ejected. The drive will be polled until the requested
> # tape is entered.
> Offline On Unmount = Yes
> Close on Poll = Yes
> Maximum Open Wait = 1 day
> AutomaticMount = Yes
> Volume Poll Interval = 15 minutes
>
> # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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