On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 6:09:30 PM UTC+5:30, Philip Dalrymple wrote: > I have been using Bacula and Bareos for a few years but have always used > USB/SATA disks and a changer script that I built myself without problems. > > We just got a LTO (M8) 48 tape changer to inprove the resources for backup. > > I had no trouble in configuring the changer and the first few jobs worked > like a charm. > > I have Scratch, Full, Inc, and Diff pools (much like my diskpacks) and for > both Full and Inc jobs the changer mounted a scratch tape and put it in the > right pool. > > I umounted the tape (Inc as I tried full first) to test the move command. > > the next job that ran (this one on a schedule) hung with > > 3604 JobId=23896 device "LTO8" (/dev/st0) is BLOCKED due to user unmount. > > and I mounted the correct tape and the jobs ran. > > I then, to test, unmounted the tape and ran another job. This one again > hung with a message like the above one. I tried mounting another scratch > tape and rather than unmounting it and using the tape in the correct pool > it labled this scratch tape as in the inc pool. > > ------------------------------- > > OK as I was composing this I found the following: > > If you have Always Open = yes (recommended) and you want to use the drive for > something else, simply use the unmount command in the Console program to > release the drive. However, don’t forget to remount the drive with mount when > the drive is available or the next Bareos job will block. > > And I have Always open to yes (as that appears to be needed for tapes. > > Is there a way to tell Bareos to re-mount the tape that was mounted without > remembering which tape was mounted. In general I want to move tapes around > to get ones that need to be shifted out of the autochanger all together.
Before unmounting the tape, please "release" it from the console. *release storage=< > drive=< > slot=< > I hope this will help -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/34664bc2-7094-4ad2-8f09-82f4a7d321cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
