Hello Martin, It's a Dell L500 and does not auto rewind. We have another 5 identical ones in production but they are running an older version of Bacula. This seems to be new to us with Bacula 5.0.3.
Thanks for the reply. James On 2011-07-07, at 4:28 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:29:46 -0600, James Woodward said: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've tried searching around a bit but I can't seem to find an answer as to >> what might cause this problem. I have qutie a few tapes that have been >> marked in error due to Invalid Tape position. I've listed the Invalid tape >> position errors as well as detail about one of the affected volumes. Has >> anyone else encountered this or have any idea's as to why it might be >> happening? For the life of me I can't figure out what the Expected 0 portion >> refers to. I thought it might refer to volfiles but those numbers don't >> always match either. >> ... >> Invalid Tape Position Errors >> # grep -i "invalid tape position" log >> 11-Mar 18:01 esqb6-sd JobId 196: Error: Invalid tape position on volume >> "090137" on device "Drive-2" (/dev/sa2). Expected 0, got 20 > > Is /dev/sa2 an auto-rewinding device? Bacula must use a no-rewinding device > (normally called /dev/nsa2 on BSD). > > __Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
