OK making a lot of progress here!!!! Have to thank you for your
insights. Managed to do a test with btape. Looks like it passed.
When it asked to test the autochanger I said yes and got the following
error:
Do you wish to continue with the Autochanger test? (y/n): y
=== Autochanger test ===
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded" command.
3991 Bad autochanger command: /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/sg0
loaded 1 /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-35001438004d2b339-nst 0
3991 result="mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
": ERR=Child exited with code 1
You must correct this error or the Autochanger will not work.
*
Can anyone see something obvious? Will keep beating the crap out of this.
Greg
On Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 12:35:14 PM UTC-5 Gregory West wrote:
> Here is the results from the ID list:
> root@backup:~# ls /dev/tape/by-id/
> scsi-35001438004d2b338 scsi-35001438004d2b338-changer
> scsi-35001438004d2b339 scsi-35001438004d2b339-nst scsi-HU1205LUW6
> scsi-HU1205LUW6-nst scsi-MXA225Z00B
>
> From looking at the list the ID would be: scsi-35001438004d2b339-nst.
> Or am I totally wrong here?
>
> Greg
> On Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 12:18:17 PM UTC-5 Gregory West wrote:
>
>> Thank you for that information, I was wondering before. I have updates
>> the TapeDrives.conf
>> Device {
>> Name = tapedrive-0
>> DeviceType = tape
>> DriveIndex = 0
>> ArchiveDevice = /dev/nst0
>> .....
>> and autochanger-0.conf
>> Autochanger {
>> Name = autochanger-0
>> Changer Device = /dev/sg0
>> Device = tapedrive-0
>> Changer Command = "/usr/lib/bareos/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
>> }
>> Quick question should the device in the autochanger-0.conf be
>> 'tapedrive-0' (the name of the first tape drive) or TapeDrives (the name of
>> the config file) In time I will have more than one tape drive.
>>
>> On Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 3:03:23 AM UTC-5 Bruno Friedmann
>> (bruno-at-bareos) wrote:
>>
>>> You can't have both tape device and autochanger pointing to the same
>>> scsi target here you are using /dev/sg0
>>> Either the changer is sg0 and the drive maybe sg1
>>>
>>> The tape drive should point the the non-streaming device (usually
>>> /dev/nst0 or better to use it's unique id)
>>> /dev/tape/by-id/XXXXX
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 8 April 2026 at 20:50:34 UTC+2 Gregory West wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found one issue in the content of the /autochangers dir. An extra
>>>> .conf file that should not be there. File deleted bareos-sd restarted
>>>> now
>>>> getting the following error:
>>>> 3910 Unable to open device ""tapedrive-0" (/dev/sg0)":
>>>> ERR=backends/generic_tape_device.cc:130 Unable to open device
>>>> "tapedrive-0"
>>>> (/dev/sg0): ERR=Invalid argument
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 1:43:55 PM UTC-5 Gregory West wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am new to Bareos, and using an autochanger. And yes I am a gluten
>>>>> for punishment. I have the following config files (see below). When I
>>>>> do
>>>>> a * label -> 2: Tape bconsole seems to just sit there. Obviously I
>>>>> have
>>>>> something wrong in my configs. I just can not figure what. Any
>>>>> assistance would be great.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg
>>>>> /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/storage/Tape.conf
>>>>> Storage {
>>>>> Name = Tape
>>>>> Address = backup # N.B. Use a fully qualified name
>>>>> here (do not use "localhost" here).
>>>>> Password = " the ultra secret password "
>>>>> Device = autochanger-0
>>>>> Media Type = LTO
>>>>> Auto Changer = yes
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> /etc/bareos/bareos-sd.d/autochanger/autochanger-0.conf
>>>>> Autochanger {
>>>>> Name = autochanger-0
>>>>> Changer Device = /dev/sg0
>>>>> Device = tapedrive-0
>>>>> Changer Command = "/usr/lib/bareos/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> /etc/bareos/bareos-sd.d/device/tapedrives.conf
>>>>> Device {
>>>>> Name = tapedrive-0
>>>>> DeviceType = tape
>>>>> DriveIndex = 0
>>>>> ArchiveDevice = /dev/sg0
>>>>> MediaType = LTO
>>>>> AutoChanger = yes # default: no
>>>>> AutomaticMount = yes # default: no
>>>>> MaximumFileSize = 10GB # default: 1000000000 (1GB)
>>>>> LabelMedia = yes
>>>>> RemovableMedia = yes
>>>>> Autoselect = yes
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>
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