Does anyone know if bacula keeps track of tape soft errors? (Soft errors being correctable errors that were corrected by the tape drive hardware.)
I like to use the number of soft errors as an early warning indicator as to tape failure. I am currently using Veritas Backup Exec and it tracks total read and write errors both soft and hard per tape. I will typically toss a tape if it gets any hard errors and consider tossing it when the soft error count starts to get high. I don't like the linux support on Veritas and I am a couple of versions behind on it. I would like to switch something that handles linux better and doesn't require me to fork out a bunch of cash. I took a look at the bacula table structure and there is a VolErrors column in the Media table. I glanced at the source code and it seems the column is related to higher level problems then tape soft errors. Does anyone know what kind of errors that the "VolErrors" column totals? I am currently running version 1.36.3 as offered by the default ubuntu package repositories. I realize that the current version is 2.x, but I haven't found a repository that allows me to install a current version via a package manager. I will get around to building from source soon so I can be on the current version. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
