I know this has been discussed in length before, but I have just seen a behaviour that can explain some of the problems with tapes being considered "full" when they are actually only partially filled.
With my setup I have 4 scsi devices of which I normally only use two, the tape streamer and a scanner. I normally keep the tape streamer open to bacula because then I won't forget to mount the tape prior to the back-up cycle. Yesterday. however, I noticed when operating the scanner that the tape device suddenly started rewinding the tape apparently initiated by activity on the scanner. Of course I should have remounted the tape - but forgot. Next morning - the back-up schedule is at 2 o'clock at night - the tape was ejected and claimed full by bacula and the job was waiting for the mounting of a new appendable volume. I changed the status of the ejected volume from full to append and remounted it and the back-up job ran to completion without further problems. So apparently an activity on another scsi device on the same cable may cause the tape device to rewind and thus get out of sync with bacula. I don't know if this is a problem which may be fixed by bacula but I doubt it. With this behaviour in mind I have started to unmount the tape when the back-up is completed and to mount it again shortly before start of next back-up cycle. -- Erik P. Olsen, Civilingeniør, MSc Solsortvej 30, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: +45 38346480, Fax: +45 32106480, Mobil: +45 40765300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
