Your explanation is correct. Here is the log which I should have looked at
and included in the original.
12-Dec 23:19 lcn-dir: Start Backup JobId 6, Job=
BackupCatalog.2006-12-12_23.10.00
12-Dec 23:19 lcn-sd: BackupCatalog.2006-12-12_23.10.00 Error: block.c:538
Write error at 53:1 on device "Ultrium" (/dev/tape). ERR=Input/output error.
12-Dec 23:19 lcn-sd: BackupCatalog.2006-12-12_23.10.00 Error: Error writing
final EOF to tape. This Volume may not be readable.
dev.c:1542 ioctl MTWEOF error on "Ultrium" (/dev/tape). ERR=Input/output
error.
12-Dec 23:19 lcn-sd: End of medium on Volume "tape7" Bytes=52,398,230,131
Blocks=812,226 at 12-Dec-2006 23:19.
12-Dec 23:24 lcn-sd: Invalid slot=0 defined, cannot autoload Volume.
This happened after a full backup, then the backupCatalog job was running
and ran several times successfully, then this happened. Does this in fact
indicate a physical error on the tape? If so, I guess I just have to try to
get a refund or warranty on the tape which is disappointing. Ah well it is
not a big deal.
Do you know, is it possible to purge the tape, then run an incremental
backup where bacula knows (from the purge) that these files are no longer in
the catalog, and so it backs them up?
I don't care much about leaving the tape in the pool as a 60GB volume, but I
do worry that I won't be able to recover data on this tape if it does in
fact have physical errors, and would like to get rid of it. Also I want to
avoid recreating the whole backup which takes awhile (24hr) with our
fileset.
FD Files Written: 45,422,838
FD Bytes Written: 2,059,990,875,973 (2.059 TB)
Can someone let me know if this is possible?
Thanks
Nick
On 12/15/06, James Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick Jones wrote:
> Does anyone know why or how my tape7 could have been marked full even
> though it is the same capacity as the other tapes and is not full
> according to bacula. Now it is appending to tape4. Also, it is hard
> to read but it says 0 for 'in changer' for tapes 1,2, and 4 which are
> all in the changer and were listed as such at one time. All I did was
> run a backup. How did these values become changed? How can I tell
> bacula that tape7 is not full (it's pretty obvious it's not full
> according to bacula's records). Also is it a problem that the tapes
> are no longer 'in changer' ?
>
> Thanks alot for help or suggestions
I've had exactly that happen when the tape media reports an error. I
can't remember exactly where it's written, but IIRC the documentation
says something to the effect that it's not always possible to determine
the difference between a "tape full" message and an error on the tape.
--
Nick Jones
University of Iowa
Dept of Neurology
Systems Analyst
319-356-0451
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