I have my tape streamer on the same scsi cable as my scanner. Once in a while my scanner fails such that it comes to a sudden halt right in the midst of the scan. When that happens I can hear the tape streamer starting to operate. In order not to confuse bacula with the tape position I then do an unmount following by a mount.
Now bacula ought to know the tape position and perform a correct backup run. However, this is not what happens. Bacula starts a scan for end-of-volume but it never finds the eov mark and therefore fails. It seems to me that the scanner process has destroyed the tape and made it unuseable. Is this something others have experienced and is there a way to isolate the tape drive logically from other scsi (scanner) programs. I now unmount the tape as soon as a backup has finished but since the backup runs unattended during night time I sometimes forget to mount the tape and then miss a backup. Regards, -- Erik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
