Hi, On 6/13/2007 8:48 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote: >>>>>> "AL" == Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AL> It might be that the part file in question still is in your temporary > AL> storage directory. > > I should have mentioned that I looked there, and it's not there.
That doesn't look good... > AL> Do you have "Write Part After Job" set in the job > AL> definition? > > Yep. (though it's in the JobDefs referral) Ok. >>> the disc is not full yet and mounting it shows about 3G in use: >>> /dev/hda 2972194 2972194 0 100% /mnt/cdrom >>> and the missing part was very small: >>> FD Bytes Written: 228,657 (228.6 KB) >>> SD Bytes Written: 231,716 (231.7 KB) > > AL> I did experience problems with small part files myself and think that, > AL> for (some) DVD writers, a "session" has to have certain minimum size. No > AL> hard facts, though, that's just what I observed quite a while ago. > > huh. that'd be odd. It should be easy to test too, cause 2 > back-to-back incrementals should hit it. Right, easily verified problem... Actually, to make this more clear, I'm more or less sure that the problems I encountered then were not a deficiency in DVD standards, but probably hardware- or software-related. For example, the notes I took then indicate that, using DVD writing software under windows, I could write smaller sessions, but I could not completely understand the data that was put into all these DVD data records. At least there were some differences to what growisofs produced. > AL> My workaround (or rather the one I implemented for my customer) was to > AL> set "Write Part after Job" to No for all jobs except the BackupCatalog > AL> one. Like this, All normal jobs would have a good chance to get written > AL> correctly, and only the Catalog backup was in danger of ending up > corrupted. > > Interesting. I'll certainly think on that one. > >>> 2) what to do about it? Choices are, I think: >>> 2a) invalidate the whole volume >>> 2b) somehow tell bacula that just that part is missing and to rewrite >>> just that part... > > AL> Yes, look for the part file in the spooling directory you set up for the > AL> DVD storage device. > > Unfortunately, no go there... > > Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can duplicate the issue... Looks like that plus extensive debug logging is the only thing you can do now. Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
