[linux] bacula users?

[Matt Weatherford]

I used to get that error on my Dell 124T when I had put a tape in to the 
empty slot that was reserved for the tape in the drive... backup 
software independent problem... it was a  "human putting the robot into 
a deadlock state" problem....



On 2/17/2011 1:54 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:

> I have had problems similar to this occasionally, and have had some 

> luck with releasing and remounting. Sometimes after releasing, I exit 

> bacula and unload and load the tape changer using mtx. Then mounting 

> again from bacula often works. I always thought these problems were 

> just a matter of an old changer and some old tapes, but maybe 

> something has changed in bacula's implementation of

> tape changer support.

>

> Sorry, don't have a great solution for this.

>

> cheers,

> maria

>

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester 

> <jjest at u.washington.edu <mailto:jjest at u.washington.edu>> wrote:

>

>     Hi Maria,

>

>     Thanks for the reply.

>

>     I continuously get errors stating that the storage device (Dell

>     124T) is “BLOCKED” despite having the tape mounted and set to

>     ‘Recycle’ or ‘Append’.

>

>     Here is a common message:

>

>     17-Feb 13:26 bacula02-sd JobId 1129: Please mount Volume

>     "000109L4" or label a new one for:

>

>         Job:          red-offsite.2011-02-15_07.00.00_06

>

>         Storage:      "Drive1" (/dev/nst0)

>

>         Pool:         Offsite

>

>         Media type:   LTO4

>

>     The volume appears to be available for writing…

>

>         5 |         000109L4 |   Recycle |                 LTO4

>     |            Offsite |

>

>     I mount the volume and get the following.

>

>     *mount

>

>     The defined Storage resources are:

>

>          1: File

>

>          2: Tape

>

>     Select Storage resource (1-2): 2

>

>     Enter autochanger slot: 5

>

>     3001 OK mount requested. Specified slot ignored. Device="Drive1"

>     (/dev/nst0)

>

>     Subsequent messages repeat me to mount the volume or label new

>     one. I have plenty of tapes available in my scratch pool but is

>     stuck on this one.

>

>     These problem typically happen with new tapes. I have tried using

>     ‘label barcodes’ for new tapes in the past but have gotten errors

>     and resulted to rewinding the tape and writing ‘weof’ to the

>     volume. Could these problems be related?

>

>     Appreciate your input.

>

>     Thanks

>

>     -JJ

>

>     Jeremiah Jester

>     Informatics Specialist

>

>     Microbiology – Katze Lab

>

>     206-732-6185

>

>     *From:*linux-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu

>     <mailto:linux-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu>

>     [mailto:linux-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu

>     <mailto:linux-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu>] *On Behalf Of

>     *Maria McKinley

>     *Sent:* Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:13 PM

>     *To:* Linux/Unix Users Group at the UW

>     *Subject:* Re: [linux] bacula users?

>

>     Yup, what's going on?

>

>     ~maria

>

>     On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester

>     <jjest at u.washington.edu <mailto:jjest at u.washington.edu>> wrote:

>

>     Any Bacula users on this list? Having some issues that I would

>     like to get a second opinion on.

>

>     Thanks

>     JJ

>

>     Jeremiah Jester

>     Informatics Specialist

>

>     Microbiology – Katze Lab

>

>     206-732-6185

>

>

>

>

>     -- 

>

>     Maria Mckinley

>

>     Scientific Programmer

>     Shadlen Lab

>     Physiology and Biophysics

>     Box 357290

>     University of Washington

>     (206) 616-3923

>     parody at u.washington.edu <mailto:parody at u.washington.edu>

>

>

>

>

> -- 

> Maria Mckinley

> Scientific Programmer

> Shadlen Lab

> Physiology and Biophysics

> Box 357290

> University of Washington

> (206) 616-3923

> parody at u.washington.edu <mailto:parody at u.washington.edu>

>

>