I thought I had fixed this by upgrading to Bacula 5 (as part of Fedora 13 upgrade) and reverting bacula-sd.conf settings to defaults. I can perform reboots, stop & restart bacula-sd, and Bacula is able to append. However the other day the system locked up (due to an unrelated issue) & I had to reboot the hard way with the power switch. After that I am back to MTEOM tape positioning errors:- 08-Jul 01:06 bacula-sd JobId 315: Error: Unable to position to end of data on device "SLR7" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:956 ioctl MT EOM error on "SLR7" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
If I try to position at the end of this tape I get an I/O error:- [r...@localhost dev]# mt -f /dev/nst0 eod /dev/nst0: Input/output error But if I use the previous week's tape, which did not have any errors, mt -f /dev/nst0 eod successfully positions the tape. It looks as if Bacula writes the EOM marker when it is shut down nicely, not when it completes the backup job; if it is shut down brutally it doesn't get written and so the end of the medium can't be found. Is this how Bacula really works? If it is, how can I get round it, or is it a bug? For the record, my (default) bacula-sd.conf settings are:- Hardware End of Medium = Yes Fast Forward Space File = Yes Use MTIOCGET = Yes BSF at EOM = No Two EOF = No Backward Space Record = Yes Backward Space File = Yes Forward Space Record = Yes Forward Space File = Yes and my tape driver options are The options set: buffer-writes async-writes read-ahead can-bsr +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by and...@wasielewski.co.uk via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
