running bacula 2.0.3 with mysql 4.1.13 on SuSE 10.0; mtx 1.3.10; smartctl 5.36 ADIC scalar-100 with 4 LTO-1 drives
Hello, I had some strange problems with bacula. Main effect: I am running 3 concurrent jobs every day which use 3 drives. Because of the "suboptimal" method of picking a drive for a job (as recently reported) bacula keeps changing the drives for the jobs so it has to unload / load the tapes. Somtimes the tapes could not be appended to after they where moved from one drive to another. After several days of testing and searching (in fact using 3 different scsi-controlers) i finally got the culprit. It was the "Alert Command = " line calling tapeinfo which seems to reset the scsi controller. So the first job which finishes called tapeinfo which reseted the scsi-bus and so confusing the still running jobs on the other drives. After disabling the Alert Command i got no more reset messages in the message-log and no more problems with the tapes. As far as i can tell by now (just tested once) the problem does not concern smartctl. Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
