Thanks for your help Wolfgang but as it seems, the solution was much simpler.
I did the tests with our "backup" tape-library and they worked fine. Ok, tape drive broken, I changed them and it works. I dunno why but I threw a cleaning tape into the new library just to clean the head before the weekend and thought about the old (replaced) library. The library has 6 slots, one of them holds a cleaning tape and the library is configured to clean itself whenever it needs it. Mmmmmh, doesn't seem to have worked. I cleaned the replaced tapedrive and *BINGO* works again. Right, time to check the automagic cleaning thingy ;) Greetings and a nice weekend to all of you. Michael On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 - 11:01am, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> >... >> What the hell is that? >... >> >Running Bacula 1.38.5 on Linux. > >The Linux SCSI tape device driver has default settings which cause a >lot of problems whenever you try to run multivolume backups. For >details please see "man 4 st". > >Most critical options are: MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES, MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES, >MT_ST_READ_AHEAD. Especially the combination of MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES >and MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES prevents any way to reliably handle end of >tape conditions. > >Try if it helps to turn off all these options by issuing the command: >"mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind ; mt -f /dev/nst0 stoptions 0" after mounting >a tape; if this is an autoloader device, add these commands to your >mtx-changer script after loading a tape. > >Best regards, > >Wolfgang Denk > > -- I love deadlines, especially the sound they make as they go whooshing by. ------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
