Hi, On 2/1/2007 2:50 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Maybe I did something really stupid.
For your comfort: You're not the first one :-) > I ejected an already bacula-mounted tape > and inserted a cleaning cartridge. After the cleaning process was finished I > reinserted the backup tape. I did it without an unmount/mount cycle. When the > backup run later started the tape was ejected with tape error and it was no > longer possible to read the tape because bacula claimed that it had no volume > label and that proved to be true when I tried to read the tape. > > Why was this proceedue not possible and why was the backup tape overwritten? The tape was positioned somewhere in the middle. Baculaknew the tape position to be correct for appending, and it knew it cold use that tape. After reloading it, the tape was positioned at the beginning, where Bacula requires its tape label. Bacula knw it could append, so it simply started writing - it did not position the tape to the correct position. As a resilt, you have overwritten the tape label and the first blocks of data on the tape, rendering the first jobs on that tape unusable. > Is > it a bug or did I just do something stupid? You did something stupid :-) But I understand that the current version of Bacula locks the tape eject / drive door of your tape drive if possible. There is only one sequence of actions to clean a tape drive: Wait until the device is free, unmount, load cleaning cartridge, load regular tape again, mount. This could be improved, hence Adams and my project suggestion. Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
