Update slots with more than 30 tapes

[Hendrik Peyerl]

Hi everyone,

I have an autochanger with 40 tapes, when I run update slots i get the following message:

Slot 31 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 32 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 33 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 34 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 35 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 36 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 37 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 38 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 39 greater than max 30 ignored.
Slot 40 greater than max 30 ignored.

Is there any setting that I need to set to allow more than 30 tapes to be used?

Thanks,

Hendrik

[Andreas Rogge]

Hi Hendrick,

Am 07.05.25 um 13:55 schrieb Hendrik Peyerl:

> I have an autochanger with 40 tapes, when I run update slots i get the following message:
>
> Slot 31 greater than max 30 ignored.

[...]
That looks like mtx-changer reports the library has only 30 slots.
You can try to run the "mtx-changer slots" command providing all the
other required parameters and see what output you get.

You can also run the following:

mtx -f /your/changer/device status \
| awk '/^ Storage Changer .*:/ { print $5 }'

Which is what mtx-changer does.
If that doesn't print the number of slots you have, you'll need to go
figure out why.

> Is there any setting that I need to set to allow more than 30 tapes to be used?

Usually no. People are using Bareos with libraries having 1000+ slots
without issues.

Best Regards,
Andreas

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[Hendrik Peyerl]

Hi Andreas,

I went to check it again today and now they are all showing.

We applied Updates and reboots to all servers last week so I guess something was stuck somewhere.

If it happens again I’ll come back to this topic as this will probably not help anyone finding this issue too.

Best regards,

Hendrik

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