On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 10:44:38 AM UTC-2, John Bolt wrote: > Hello, > > Please inform the procedure to fix the following backup error after the > backup: > > > fedora18-sd Elapsed time=01:58:01, Transfer rate=68.49 M Bytes/second > fedora18-sd Alert: smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 > [x86_64-linux-3.11.10-100.fc18.x86_64] (local build) > Alert: Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, > www.smartmontools.org > Alert: > Alert: Smartctl open device: /dev/st0 failed: Device or resource busy > 3997 Bad alert command: sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error /dev/st0': ERR=Child > exited with code 2.
Hello Marco, Thanks a lot for the clear explanation. I really appreciate. When checking for the tape device with lsscsi --generic I got a /dev/st0 /dev/sg5 answer and not a /dev/nst0 and that misled me to conclude that your "Example Storage Daemon Configuration File" in the Chapter 10.7 of the manual should be corrected to my "real" device. Maybe a comment should be added to the corresponding "Archive Device" lines in the manual to help avoid others to make the same error. Searching the web for more "rewinding or non-rewinding" explanations I found the following: "usually you should use the non-rewinding device nodes to avoid having the drive rewind unexpectedly. When using Backup software like Bareos, you actually MUST use the non-rewinding device, otherwise you may get into trouble (the software does its own rewinds and doesn't expect the tape to be rewound without it having done it itself). I hope this feedback may help anyone who may fall in similar problems or that the manuals could include some information of this kind to improve the user experience with Bareos. -- 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.
