Alan,
The cleaning alert came on a month or so ago. I cleaned it and it went
away.
Here's what I see when I do smartctl with a tape loaded. I don't see
anything that specifies the level or type of error correction:
[root@backup01 log]# smartctl -a /dev/nst0
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30
Am 09.05.2014 20:52, schrieb Brian C. Huffman:
> I am using Bacula 5.2.13 on CentOS 6.5 with a Dell PV124t using an LTO4
> drive.
> I've cleaned the drive and this is happening on more than one tape.
> There are no tape alerts being shown right now on the autoloader. Could
> this be a hardware pr
On 09/05/14 21:20, Clark, Patricia A. wrote:
> It could be the drive and it could be the connection to the drive.
It can also be a dirty drive. Cleaning tapes can only do so much.
Is the cleaning light coming up? What level of error correction is
showing in the drive when you query it with smart
It could be the drive and it could be the connection to the drive. Swap
out the cable first - it's easiest, cheapest, and most prone to having a
bad connection. Test. Bacula uses standard device commands. You should
use the mt and mtx commands directly - you are more likely to get more
informati
All,
I am using Bacula 5.2.13 on CentOS 6.5 with a Dell PV124t using an LTO4
drive.
Lately I noticed that I was replacing tapes more and more often. When I
went to look at the VolBytes of the tapes, they don't appear to be
storing nearly as much data as they used to before an "End of medium" i
