@Win Htin: You are definitely on the money with your suggested change to bacula-sd.conf and your mt commands to set the driver options. I was getting errors like these with my Tandberg SLR7 whenever I tried to append to a tape which had been mounted while the system rebooted:- 16-May 23:22 bacula-dir JobId 182: Start Backup JobId 182, Job=BackupHomeDir.2010-05-16_23.22.06_04 16-May 23:22 bacula-dir JobId 182: Using Device "SLR7" 16-May 23:22 bacula-sd JobId 182: Volume "Week5-Tape001" previously written, moving to end of data. 16-May 23:28 bacula-sd JobId 182: Error: Unable to position to end of data on device "SLR7" (/dev/nst0): ERR= dev.c:937 ioctl MTEOM error on "SLR7" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
16-May 23:28 bacula-sd JobId 182: Marking Volume "Week5-Tape001" in Error in Catalog. 16-May 23:29 bacula-sd JobId 182: Job BackupHomeDir.2010-05-16_23.22.06_04 waiting. Cannot find any appendabl e volumes. I could write any time if the tape was initialised, and append while still in the same Linux session. This was not due to fixed block size - I had already had that problem after erroneously configuring bacula-sd.conf, which meant I could never append. I haven't had time to work out by trial & error eactly which settings make the difference, but it is definitely down to the driver writing a MTEOM marker if the system is cycled with a tape mounted. Thanks, Andrew +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by and...@wasielewski.co.uk via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
