Hi, 11.12.2007 22:06,, Michael Galloway wrote:: > thanks for helping arno, here is what i've found: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:36:06PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> First of all, it's quite important to know why it's been marked as >> "Error". You can look that up in the log file Bacula, by default, >> writes. A grep for the volume name should tell you something. >> > > 10-Dec 09:03 molbio-sd JobId 18: Volume "002045L4" previously written, moving > to end of data. > 10-Dec 09:34 molbio-sd JobId 18: Error: Unable to position to end of data on > device "LTO4" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:1355 ioctl MTFSF error on "LTO4" > (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
Ok, so chances are that this tape can be read without problems. > 10-Dec 09:34 molbio-sd JobId 18: Marking Volume "002045L4" in Error in > Catalog. > 10-Dec 09:34 molbio-dir JobId 18: Using Volume "002044L4" from 'Scratch' pool. > > is this a tape failure? these are new LTO4 tapes. Either a tape or tape drive problem, I think. A look in the system log - you've got the date and time, so you should find the time range easily - might tell you more. It could be a one-time hardware problem you'll never encounter again, it could be a tape where the final EOF wasn't written for whatever reason, or it's really an unusable tape. Personally, I'd mark the volume as used and take a not to observe this tape. If, during normal operations, more errors happen, remove it. Alternatively, you could also seriously test this tape, for example using btape, but that takes quite a while with LTO... So, I suggest to update the volume status to used and see what happens. Restores shouldn't be affected by problems finding the EOD marker. Arno > -- michael > > > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
