Hello Jessi, Am 11.08.2014 11:20, schrieb jesse hart: > Turns out I resolved this issue. > > Let me break it down for anyone else that has the issue. > > > The symptoms presented with the autochanger loading a tape but then saying > there was no media in the drive. > > > It turns out that my /dev/nst devices were not mapped to the drive indexes in > the 0 though 3 order so /dev/nst0 was not associated with drive 0 > > I figured this out by using the btape test using my bareos-sd.conf and > manually loading and unloading each drive from each of the 4 drives I have > until I found what drive was associated with each /dev/nst device. > > After doing this I found > /dev/nst0 was mapped to drive 3 on my device > /dev/nst1 was mapped to drive 0 on my device > /dev/nst2 was mapped to drive 2 on my device > /dev/nst3 was mapped to drive 1 on my device
Good that you found that out. The problem is, that it can happen that the devices are discovered by your os in a different order the next time you boot. So it is better to use the /dev/tape/by-id/* devices to address your tapes instead of /dev/nst[0-3] These devices are symlinks to /dev/nstx, but udev will make sure that the link always points to the right device, no matter in what order the devices were discovered. So you can replace /dev/nst0 by the /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-yxxxxx-nst device which points to /dev/nst0 ( and so on for the other devices) . That should help to avoid a lot of problems in the future. You can also use the dev/tape/xxx device for the tapechanger device, so that you will not get problems accessing your changer device if something on your scsi bus changes. Best regards, Philipp -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Philipp Storz [email protected] Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: Phone: +49221630693-92 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49221630693-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Geschäftsführer: Stephan Dühr, M. Außendorf, J. Steffens, P. Storz, M. v. Wieringen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
