On Dec 7, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Allan Black wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> There was a problem, a few years back, but since solved, with >> FreeBSD's >> pthreads. It would cause data to be "written" to the end of the >> tape, >> but it would not actually reach the tape. >> http://mlblog.osdir.com/os.freebsd.devel.scsi/2003-06/msg00018.shtml > > I am actually seeing the opposite of this; there is more data on the > tape > than Bacula thinks it has written - one block more, to be exact! > >> What OS are you running? > > Sorry, I was intending to include this information, but I was > concentrating > so hard on the content, I forgot! > > Solaris 10 x86 (update 3 - 11/06) > >> What version of Bacula? > > 2.4.3 > >> What is in your bacula-sd.conf file? > > ========================================================= > # > # Internal DDS3 Autochanger > # > Autochanger { > Name = DDS3 > Device = DDS3-0 > Changer Command = "/usr/local/bacula/bin/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" > Changer Device = /dev/scsi/changer/c2t3d1 > } > > Device { > Name = DDS3-0 > Media Type = DDS-3 > Archive Device = /dev/rmt/1cbn > AutomaticMount = no > AlwaysOpen = yes > RemovableMedia = yes > RandomAccess = no > AutoChanger = yes > }
I am speaking without researching the issue... FWIW, I have this in my Device: Hardware End of Medium = no BSF at EOM = yes Backward Space Record = yes Fast Forward Space File = yes TWO EOF = yes I'm not sure if these may be FreeBSD (my OS) specific or not. I guess you could blindly try those or research them. :) -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
