On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:14, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it > anywhere, so I'm sending you the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a > mention on the pdf documentation. Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to > use the "b" device on tapes! Read the Solaris 10 mtio man page extract: > Read Operation > The read(2) function reads the next record on the tape. The > record size is passed back as the number of bytes read, pro- > vided it is not greater than the number requested. When a > tape mark or end of data is read, a zero byte count is > returned; all successive reads after the zero read will > return an error and errno will be set to EIO. To move to the > next file, an MTFSF ioctl can be issued before or after the > read causing the error. This error handling behavior is dif- > ferent from the older BSD behavior, where another read will > fetch the first record of the next tape file. If the BSD > behavior is required, device names containing the letter b > (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be used. If > persistent error handling was enabled with either the BSD or > SVR4 tape device behavior, all operations after this read > error will return EIO errors until the MTIOCLRERR ioctl is > issued. An MTFSF ioctl can then he issued.
Yes, this *is* in the manual (in the Tape Testing chapter), but perhaps I could stress the /dev/rmt/0b for Solaris systems a bit more. Anyway, I am happy you found the solution ... > Now, using /dev/rmt/0b will run the tests perfectly. > If you use /dev/rmt/0 : > - Test will not work > - Bacula will correctly write > - bconsole will correctly read, because it knows exactly the file number to > reach, and ask the device to skip there before reading - command line > utilities won't work, beacuse they will fail discovery of content after > reaching the end of file=1 Previous tapes that I have written using > /dev/rmt/0 can be read through /dev/rmt/0b, but may mislead you. Trying an > "bls -j -v -V ..." on the old tape will show the first start of job, and > then come out with a lot of: 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 1 on device > /dev/rmt/0b, Volume "THURSDAY2" 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 2 on > device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume "THURSDAY2" .... > .... > You just have to wait. The rest of data has been written into later files. > Then you can create your bootstrap file and suggest bextract where to > position. Hope this helps, Yes, I will put this information in the manual. > Gabriele. > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > http://www.sonicle.com -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- 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
