> > One very important question: Have you run the btape tests, and did they > report anything you didn't understand or even errors? > no i hadnt run the tests.
> > > > i even tried putting the "real" device name in the config file "st0" > > and that doesnt work either. > > I don't understand that sentence... meaning in the configs it had /dev/nst0 and my drive is /dev/st0, even though they both worked for some reason, i have it set to /dev/st0 now. > > > also when i try to label the tape i get: > > > > Enter new Volume name: BackupSet1 > > Automatically selected Pool: Default > > Connecting to Storage daemon DDS-3 at mail:9103 ... > > Sending relabel command from "BackupSet01" to "BackupSet1" ... > > Hmm. This looks like you issued a 'relabel' command, not 'label'. well it wouldnt let me re-issue the command, so i did the relabel command just to get the printed error again, it was the same on both commands. > > > block.c:782 Read error at file:blk 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. > > ERR=Input/output error. > > This looks like your SD can't use the tape drive. Start (again) with > btape and tell us what the tests report. > > > 3000 OK label. Volume=BackupSet1 Device=/dev/nst0 > > Catalog record for Volume "BackupSet1", Slot 0 successfully created. > > Old volume "BackupSet01" deleted from catalog. > > Requesting to mount DDS-3 ... > > 3001 OK mount. Device=/dev/nst0 > > > > this has happened on two brand new tapes. it has an error, but then > > goes along to actually complete the label, is this ok? is it just that > > the tape doesnt spin up fast enough or something? > > No, there's no such thing as far as I know. Usually, when a labeled tape > is mounted, you should see the volume name in the message. What did work > in your output above is the catalog action, but that alone is not enough. ok > > > ive googled about this and came up with a couple things related to > > labeling the tape but none of them seemed to work. do any of you have > > any other suggestions on how to track down this problem? > > Yes, btape testing... i have errors on the testing....where do i go from here? This is an *essential* feature ... 10-Mar 14:54 btape: btape Error: block.c:552 Write error at 0:791 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 10-Mar 14:54 btape: btape Error: Backspace file at EOT failed. ERR=Input/output error btape: btape.c:782 Error writing block to device. after reading the documentation a little closer, i did do the following: become super user mt -f /dev/st0 rewind mt -f /dev/st0 stoptions buffer-writes async-writes read-ahead mt -f /dev/st0 defblksize 0 mt -f /dev/st0 defcompression 1 and re-ran the tests and got the same result. could i have two bad tapes in a row? is there anything else it could be? thanks for the help Nick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
