>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:30:52 +0200, Niek Linnenbank said: > > Hi Martin, > > We are running bacula 5.0.1-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Server 10.04. Tsi-vms01-fd is > a dedicated machine which is used as our fileserver, and has the following > ethernet card: > > Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet > PCI Express (rev 21) > > The backup01-sd is a vmware virtual machine running on an ESX host, has a > SCSI tape unit connected to it, and emulates this network card: > > Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev > 10)
Hmm, running it virtualized adds another layer of possible failure unfortunately. > Neither tsi-vms01-fd nor backup01-sd logged an error at the time the error > occurred. I have tried Francisco's suggestion to use /dev/nst0 instead of > /dev/st0, which also seems to work with btape test, but also throws the same > I/O error at some point. > > Our tapes have a label written on it which says: 'IMB TotalStorage LTO > Ultrium 400GB uncompressed, 800GB compressed'. The tape unit itself has a > label 'IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 3'. The fileserver job takes at least > 500GB. I suspect that the tape gets full at some point, and that bacula > doesn't detect this. I don't know how a full tape would generate I/O error on the network. Are you using spooling? If not, add Spool Data = yes to the job config. When spooling is on, try adding Maximum Spool Size = 10000m to the Device entry, which will make Bacula print some messages every 10GB (you'll need 10GB of free disk space in the working dir on backup01-sd). You can then estimate the total bytes written to the tape before it fails by counting the number of "Writing spooled data" lines in the output. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
