John, On Saturday 25 August 2007 08:02:08 pm John Drescher wrote: > > > Where the sleep 15 is uncomment this and make it sleep 60 > > > > You mean - under the "load" case? > > Yes. > > > What makes you think it would work better? > > Because before you had this you got an error that was most likely > caused by bacula trying to use the drive before it had finished > loading the tape. The changer loaded the tape to the drive but the > drive had not finished with its tape loading process. > > > Should I comment out wait_for_drive back? I tried both methods and they > > both seem to work... > > Hmm. Did your script originally have both commented out? Mine had the > wait_for_drive part uncomented and I know I did not edit that file for > my changer. Well if you can guarantee that wait_for_drive works > reliably 100% of the time (this can fail on some os/version/ tape > drives) I would say that you can get away without the sleep. One thing > to mention, I know my tape drives always take 30 seconds to 1 minute > to load the tape so a sleep in that range will not slow down the > backup by much but it will make the chance of failure in this way > lower.
Good news is, even without further changes to mtx-changer script, my large test backup spanning 3 volumes (about 0.6TB of data in total) did not generate any MTWEOF errors with version 2.2.0 anymore. Bad news, I am now getting SQL errors, presumably at the point when spooled attributes attempt to despool to database. Since this is apparently unconnected issue, I will post separetely. Please, see my other post. Thanks, Ivan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
