Package: bacula-sd
Version: 1.36.2-2sarge1
Severity: important
Backup jobs are failing when using my DDS-3 streamer when there is no tape
inserted at the beginning of the backup. The job is instantly cancelled
with these error messages:
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03-Nov 08:11 torf-dir: Start Backup JobId 206,
Job=BackupCatalog.2005-11-03_08.10.00
03-Nov 08:13 torf-sd: BackupCatalog.2005-11-03_08.10.00 Fatal error:
device.c:317 Unable to open device /dev/nst0. ERR=dev.c:289 stored: unable
to open device /dev/nst0: ERR=Input/output error
03-Nov 08:13 torf-fd: BackupCatalog.2005-11-03_08.10.00 Fatal error:
job.c:1665 Bad response to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
, got 3903 Error append data
03-Nov 08:13 torf-dir: BackupCatalog.2005-11-03_08.10.00 Error: Bacula
1.36.2 (28Feb05): 03-Nov-2005 08:13:26
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Kern Sibbald - the upstream developer - wrote on the mailing list:
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It looks like you stumbled into a change they made in the 2.6 kernel, which
will undoubtely cause a lot of people a *lot* of pain. The change prohibits
a program from opening a drive in read/write mode if there is no volume in
the drive.
If this is what is causing your problem, you can solve it by:
1. Ensuring that there is some tape in the drive befort starting the SD,
and before issuing a "mount" command in the console.
2. Upgrade to version 1.38.0 (you might wait for a Win32 fix if you have
Win32 clients).
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So the package seems to be unusable by everyone who uses tapes for backups,
runs a 2.6 Linux kernel and has no tape inserted in the drive when the
backup starts. Of course I would love to see a fix for this problem even in
Sarge if possible. Perhaps upstream can deliver a patch for the 1.36.2
version?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages bacula-sd depends on:
ii bacula-common 1.36.2-2sarge1 Network backup, recovery and verif
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcomerr2 1.37-2sarge1 common error description library
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2sarge2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpq3 7.4.7-6sarge1 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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