Hello, On 3/3/2007 12:24 PM, Christoph Litauer wrote: > Hi, > > a few of my autochanger tapes have VolStatus: Error. This is because the > number of files in the catalogue didn't match the number of files on the > tape. I don't know why this happend, is it a known bug of version 1.38.9?
Not a known bug, I think. Usually these errors happen in two situations: When the tape is not properly "finished" by Bacula, for example because of a catalog, SD or DIR crash, or when you restart your Bacula server while jobs are running. Also, when the tape fills and the final EOF can't be written to tape that might cause this state. The other possibility is an improper setting of the device parameters. These would be detected by btapes 'test' command most of the time. When you change these settings and continue to use tapes started with different settings I *guess* the file count mismatch could happen, too. > Nevertheless: I need to reuse these errored tapes. Are they > automatically reused after alle jobs are purged? Is an errored tape > still used in recovers? How can I list all jobs on an errored tape? Most important things first: You can use the query command to list all jobs on any volume. These tapes are not automaticall reused (recycled), and as far as I know they are also not used for restores. If the error is only at the end of the tape data (which would be the most usual situation) you can simply update their status to used and they will be used for restores and recycling. If you're unsure, compare the output of bls with what the catalog tells you. In the job reports for these tapes, you should usually find when this error occured. Most of the time, I find that when a tape is freshly loaded and positioned to the end of data, Baculas sanity checking finds the problem and marks the tape to be erroneous. In these cases, I think it's safe to set the status to 'Used'. If you encounter these problems regularly, I'd assume your setup is somehow malfunctioning. If, like I do, you run lots of tests of beta versions, or have hardware-related problems, you'll find many of these errors but they won't mean anything unexpected :-) Arno > Thanks a lot in advance! > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
