[Bacula-users] Tapes full?

[Lowe, Bryan]

Hello List-   I’m a bacula newbie that inherited this bacula setup from my predecessor.  It seems to work very well.   I have 3 separate tape drives for 3 separate backup pools.  They are Oracle, Unix, and Images.  All 3 are set up exactly the same way, except the Oracle jobs run nightly while the Unix and Images jobs only run once a week.   I’m having a problem with my Oracle backups that I can’t seem to put my finger on.  I’m using SuperDLT tapes, 160GB/320GB.  However, when bacula writes to the tape, it says that the tape is full only after writing less than 1GB! Sometimes it will only write like 7MB! Then it prompts me for the next available tape.  I can verify that I’m not having this problem if dumping directly to tape from command line.  I also tried putting through a cleaning tape.  Does anyone have any idea what could cause this, or where I should start looking?   Thanks.   Bryan