[Bacula-users] Labeling tapes - keeps checking all drives

[Ethier, M. <methier@CGR.Harvard.edu>]

Hello,

We have a brand new robot with LTO-5 tapes, and I installed Bacula 5.2.6. When I try to label tapes,
Bacula keeps trying to check if all the tape drives are loaded even though it asked me what tape drive to use
for labeling (see below) in the beginning. I told it drive 0. Why is it doing this ?

Also I noticed in the dmesg of the bacula server messages like:
st4: Failed to read 64512 byte block with 80 byte transfer.
st4: Failed to read 64512 byte block with 80 byte transfer.

I ran btape test and it worked fine. Are these messages ok or troublesome ? Is there way to fix this ?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[root@rcbackup ~]# bconsole
Connecting to Director rcbackup:9101
1000 OK: rcbackup-dir Version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*label barcodes slots=14-16
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
The defined Storage resources are:
     1: File
     2: Autochanger
Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at rcbackup:9103 ...
Enter autochanger drive[0]:
Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at rcbackup:9103 ...
3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
Device "Autochanger" has 224 slots.
Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at rcbackup:9103 ...
3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
The following Volumes will be labeled:
Slot  Volume
==============
  14  000162
  15  000161
  16  000136
Do you want to label these Volumes? (yes|no): yes
Defined Pools:
     1: Default
     2: jabba
     3: File
     4: Scratch
Select the Pool (1-4): 2
Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at rcbackup:9103 ...
Sending label command for Volume "000162" Slot 14 ...
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 1" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 1", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 2" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 2", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 3" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 3", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 4" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 4", result: nothing loaded.
3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 14, drive 0" command.
3305 Autochanger "load slot 14, drive 0", status is OK.
dev.c:506 Unable to open device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst4): ERR=No medium found
block.c:1001 Read error on fd=6 at file:blk 0:0 on device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst4). ERR=Input/output error.
3000 OK label. VolBytes=64512 DVD=0 Volume="000162" Device="Drive-0" (/dev/nst4)
Catalog record for Volume "000162", Slot 14  successfully created.
Sending label command for Volume "000161" Slot 15 ...
3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 14, drive 0" command.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 1" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 1", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 2" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 2", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 3" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 3", result: nothing loaded.
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 4" command.
3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 4", result: nothing loaded.
3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 15, drive 0" command.
3305 Autochanger "load slot 15, drive 0", status is OK.
block.c:1001 Read error on fd=6 at file:blk 0:0 on device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst4). ERR=Input/output error.
block.c:1001 Read error on fd=6 at file:blk 0:0 on device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst4). ERR=Input/output error.
3000 OK label. VolBytes=64512 DVD=0 Volume="000161" Device="Drive-0" (/dev/nst4)
Catalog record for Volume "000161", Slot 15  successfully created.
Sending label command for Volume "000136" Slot 16 ...
3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 15, drive 0" command.
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