Hello,
On 2/15/2006 10:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to bacula.
I looked in the manual and the mailing list but didn't find a solution.
I'm using bacula 1.36.3 on a debian sarge system. Connected to the
system is a exabyte 221L with one IBM LTO-1 drive.
I got jobs scheduled which run fine. When there is no tape in the drive
it loads the tape. But sometimes when a job starts it keeps waiting for
a tape in the drive (there isn't one) and fails after a while saying:
<message>
BackupCatalog.2006-02-15_01.10.00 Fatal error: device.c:317 Unable to
open device /dev/nst0. ERR=dev.c:289 stored: unable to open device
/dev/nst0: ERR=Input/output error
15-Feb 03:07 fs2-fd: BackupCatalog.2006-02-15_01.10.00 Fatal error:
job.c:1665 Bad response to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
, got 3903 Error append data
</message>
It didn't issue the 'mtx-changer loaded' and 'mtx-changer loaded'
commands, which, i think, it should have.
Anyone an idea why this is done?
That might be because you're runing a linux kernel 2.6. The tape access
there ahs changed quite a bit compared to 2.4 and standard unix
behaviour which can result in the SD not being able to access tape
drives without a tape loaded - just what you observe.
If that's the reason for your problem an upgrade to 1.38.5 might be your
best solution. I don't know if there are debian packages available, but
apart from that, an upgrade will improve some functionality and result
in better stability in many cases.
Arno
Underneath the device resource for the exabyte.
<in bacula-sd.conf>
# EXABYTE 221L tape changer with IBM LTO-1 drive
Device {
Name = EXABYTE
Media Type = LTO-1
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = no; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = no;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
AutoChanger = yes
Changer Device = /dev/sg2
Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
Maximum Changer Wait = 120 seconds
}
</in bacula-sd.conf>
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