Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-08 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:27:22 -0400, Paul Mather said: > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: > > >> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:30:36 -0600, James Woodward said: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like > >> an sa de

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:30 PM, James Woodward wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like an > sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really > explains that portion to me. The FreeBSD tape driver uses different device

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:30:36 -0600, James Woodward said: >> >> Hello, >> >> I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like >> an sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really >> explain

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread James Woodward
Hello, First off thanks for the links. I'll try those changes next week when I have a bit more time to do the necessary testing. I'll also try turning up the debug level to see if it does give me a bit more information. In the event that someone looks at this post and wonders about the TWO EO

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:30:36 -0600, James Woodward said: > > Hello, > > I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like > an sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really > explains that portion to me. http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread James Woodward
Sorry I forgot to add in. I haven't tried changing the device to nsa2. We do have clients backing up to this server. The problem did not present itself during testing but at that point we didn't have a lot of overlapping clients. The problem is also not very consistent. It's also interesting t

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread James Woodward
Hello, I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like an sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really explains that portion to me. When I set these up I did see a recommendation to use the pass through devices e.g pass0, pass1, pass2, pas

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:07:32 -0600, James Woodward said: > > Hello, > > Our older production servers are running FreeBSD 7.2 and Bacula 3.0.2. > > This particular server with the this issue is running FreeBSD 8.1 and Bacula > 5.0.3 installed from the packages. OK, so it could be an OS bug

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread James Woodward
Hello, Our older production servers are running FreeBSD 7.2 and Bacula 3.0.2. This particular server with the this issue is running FreeBSD 8.1 and Bacula 5.0.3 installed from the packages. Thanks, James On 2011-07-07, at 8:41 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:04:50 -06

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:04:50 -0600, James Woodward said: > > Hello Martin, > > It's a Dell L500 and does not auto rewind. We have another 5 identical ones > in production but they are running an older version of Bacula. This seems to > be new to us with Bacula 5.0.3. It's true, "Expected 0,

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread James Woodward
Hello Martin, It's a Dell L500 and does not auto rewind. We have another 5 identical ones in production but they are running an older version of Bacula. This seems to be new to us with Bacula 5.0.3. Thanks for the reply. James On 2011-07-07, at 4:28 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed,

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:29:46 -0600, James Woodward said: > > Hello, > > I've tried searching around a bit but I can't seem to find an answer as to > what might cause this problem. I have qutie a few tapes that have been > marked in error due to Invalid Tape position. I've listed the Invalid

[Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-06 Thread James Woodward
Hello, I've tried searching around a bit but I can't seem to find an answer as to what might cause this problem. I have qutie a few tapes that have been marked in error due to Invalid Tape position. I've listed the Invalid tape position errors as well as detail about one of the affected volumes