2006/4/12, Erik P. Olsen <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Sounds to me like the media are going bad or your drive is dirty. Clean
> your drive and possibly try a brand new tape.
Probably not. I have had the same experience with brand new tapes and a cleaned
tape drive. See thread: When is a tape "Full"?).
My last hypothesis is that it is due to using h/w compression. After I've
changed back to s/w compression I have not seen this phenomenon. When that said,
my tape device is DSS-4 from Seagate (Certance) and no tape changer, sp it could
very well be a different case with same symptoms.
>
> deann corum wrote:
>
>> We're using Bacula 1.36.3 (yea, I know - old) on CentOS 3 (yea, I know
>> - old) with AIT3 tapes (which store about 150 GB each) in an 8-tape
>> changer (Sony Stor-Station LIB-81).
>>
>> Suddenly, Bacula has started marking tapes as 'Full' when only a few
>> files have been written to them and only a few GB. We haven't changed
>> anything on the system or any settings recently. Below are examples of
>> what I'm seeing on three of the tapes that Bacula has marked as Full:
>>
>> Tape 1: 10,788,852,486 | 12 files - about 10-11 GB
>> Tape 2: 1,026,192,264 | 1 file - about 1 GB
>> Tape 3: 5,899,324,539 | 25 files - about 6 GB
>>
>> Having used Bacula for a while, I know these tapes hold much more data
>> than that and this is absolutely not right.
>>
>> These are previously used Bacula tapes which have had the index erased
>> (weof). We recycle them after a period of time, but have never had a
>> problem with this. In my syslog file I see:
>>
>> pr 11 01:46:39 stash st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1b,
>> Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error
>> Apr 11 01:46:39 stash Additional sense indicates Write error
>>
>> I can see that the drive doesn't like the tapes but am not sure why it
>> suddenly can't write to them beyond a certain point. Anyone have any
>> possible explanations for this?
>>
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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen.
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