Re: [Bacula-users] bextract - How To Eject and Load Next Volume?

[Drew T. <dr...@my...>]

I'm still stuck on this.  Any attempts to eject the tape with 'mt' or 
'camcontrol' result in 'device busy' errors.  Thus I assume that 
bextract has a hold of the device and won't let the tape eject.  Is 
there some config or command line option that I need to add so bextract 
will eject the tape at the end of each volume?

I'd really appreciate any thoughts, suggestions, or RTFM pointers as I 
lost a couple drives and just want to put all the data stored on these 
tapes back on my system.  Unfortunately the catalog was lost as well.

Thanks,

Drew

On 9/29/2005 12:03 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and using bextract 1.36.3 to restore multiple 
> tape volumes to a drive I lost.  It's giving me the following message:
>
> 29-Sep 10:39 bextract: End of Volume at file 16 on device /dev/nsa0, 
> Volume 
> "TAPE-0003|TAPE-0004|TAPE-0005|TAPE-0006|TAPE-0010|TAPE-0011|TAPE-0012"
> 29-Sep 10:39 bextract: bextract Warning: Wrong Volume mounted on 
> device /dev/nsa0: Wanted TAPE-0004 have TAPE-0003
> Mount Volume "TAPE-0004" on device /dev/nsa0 and press return when ready:
>
> OK, I understand it wants me to mount the next volume.  However I can 
> not get the drive to eject the tape.  It's an HP DLT-30 drive.  I 
> press the eject button on the drive but get no response.  Any attempts 
> to use the 'mt' program from FreeBSD result in a "device busy" error.  
> What should I try next?
>
> Here's the relevant part of my storage daemon conf file:
>
> ---BEGIN---
> Device {
>  Name = "HP DLT 30"
>  Media Type = DLT
>  Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
>  LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>  AlwaysOpen = yes;
>  RemovableMedia = yes;
>  RandomAccess = no;
> # From the port info:
> # Due to lack of some features in the FreeBSD tape driver
> # implementation you MUST add some OS dependent options to
> # the bacula-sd.conf file:
>
>  Hardware End of Medium = no;
>  Backward Space Record = no;
>  Backward Space File = no;
>
> # With 2 filemart at EOT (see man mt):
>  Fast Forward Space File = no;
>  BSF at EOM = yes;
>  TWO EOF = yes;
>
> }
> ---END---
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>


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