Were there any errors written to the syslog during the backup? Does the tape work with mt and dd after stopping bacula-sd? E.g. something like
mt -f /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-C3EB53C004-nst rewind dd if=/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-C3EB53C004-nst count=1 | od -c __Martin >>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:35:53 +0100, MMag Dr Karl Kashofer said: > > Dear all ! > > I try to work with a 50 slot Quantum Scalar i3 Library with an IBM LTO7 > drive. I have a set of 10 LTO7 tapes as a > storage pool in bacula and it has been backing up user directories for a > while. > > Recently we needed to swap the library chassis due to drive issues. I > unmounted the library, shut down bacula, > transferred the tapes to the new library (again a Quantum Scalar i3 with the > drives from the old one), adjusted the scsi > paths of the storage demon config and fired up bacula. During the change I > did switch from the "st" to the "nst" devices > as apparently these are preferred. > > Bacula now sees the changer device, sees the pool of tapes, but when it tried > to do the next backup it horribly died on > the current append volume with: > > 22-Mar 08:42 bacula-sd JobId 1245: Error: [SE0203] The Volume=MU0014L7 on > device="LTO7-0" (/dev/tape/by-id/scsi- > C3EB53C004-nst) appears to be unlabeled. > > There is already 45GB of data on that tape and i really dont see why it > suddenly calls it "unlabeled". > > Any idea what could be wrong ? > > I did find this thread and am unsure if thats related: > https://bacula-users.narkive.com/JWcvt8eZ/bacula-loses-tape-label > > Please help, > Thanks, > Karl > > > -- > MMag. Dr. Karl Kashofer <k...@kashofer.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
