On Monday 05 March 2007 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:34:08PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 05 March 2007 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:28:29PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > > > On 3/3/2007 12:24 PM, Christoph Litauer wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I'm also seeing this using Bacula 2.0.1 on RHEL-4 with a jukebox > > > holding two LTO-3 drives. It's an intermittent problem that I haven't > > > been able to reproduce reliably, so I haven't opened a bug report on > > > it yet. > > > > > > > Usually these errors happen in two situations: > > > > > > Let me add a third: when a job terminates with a "Fatal" error (those > > > with a job status code of 'f'), rather than the more common "Error" > > > error (those with a job status of 'E'). > > > > > > Here's my situation: I'm backing up both servers and laptops using the > > > same hardware and software, but with different tape pools. The > > > servers never encounter this failure condition; it happens to the > > > laptops about once every week or two. > > > > > > After watching the situation for a while, it seems that the failure > > > pattern is that these file mismatch errors always occur after a fatal > > > client error, which in turn is caused when a job begins, writes some > > > data to tape, and is then unable to continue because the client > > > machine has been shut down or taken off the network. > > > > The above is a known bug (at least to some of us) in 1.38.x. It is fixed > > in 2.0.x > > Thanks for the explaination Kern, I wasn't aware that that had been > corrected. Since I'm currently running version 2.0.1 of the Bacula > director, storage daemon, and related server bits, can I assume that > the problem is with the remaining version 1.38.x clients, and that > upgrading them will eliminate the problem?
If I remember right, the problem was with the Storage daemon, so it is very likely already corrected :-) It seems to me that it was Martin that pointed it out -- perhaps he remembers the exact details. > > > > > 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=DE > > > >VDEV _______________________________________________ > > > > Bacula-users mailing list > > > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- 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=DEVD > > >EV _______________________________________________ > > > Bacula-users mailing list > > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
