Hello,
I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like an
sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really
explains that portion to me.
When I set these up I did see a recommendation to use the pass through devices
e.g pass0, pass1, pass2, pass3. I don't remember the specifics but the
passthrough devices themselves seemed to be problematic.
I ran through all the btape tests recommended in the manual when we did the
initial set up and all the tests did pass.
The Bacula config files are quite different from the older ones. I didn't think
this type of issue would really come down to any of these as a potential
problem. I will provide the config info for one of my devices from the sd. They
are all pretty much the same except for the Name, Drive Index, and Archive
Device.
The way the message is worded it sounds like Bacula didn't think there should
be any information on the tape and it found some so it marked the volume with
error. I'm just not sure why that would happen unless it isn't able to query
the database properly.
If it would be helpful I could make my configs available without passwords or
client configs as well as the set up steps I put together when building the
server.
Thanks again,
James
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Device {
Name = Drive-0
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = LTO4
Archive Device = /dev/sa0
Autoselect = yes #(default)
Automatic Mount = yes
AlwaysOpen = yes #(default)
RemovableMedia = yes #(default)
RandomAccess = no
Requires Mount = no #(default)
AutoChanger = yes
Hardware End of Medium = no #(not default, FFSF & !HEoM is common)
Fast Forward Space File = yes
BSF at EOM = yes #(not default, necessary)
Backward Space Record = no #(not default)
Backward Space File = no #(not default)
TWO EOF = yes #(not default)
Maximum File Size = 4GB #(def is 1GB but > reduces stops to write EOF)
Device Type = Tape
Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
Spool Directory = /spool
Maximum Spool Size = 3800G
Maximum Job Spool Size = 800G
}
On 2011-07-07, at 9:21 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:07:32 -0600, James Woodward said:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our older production servers are running FreeBSD 7.2 and Bacula 3.0.2.
>>
>> This particular server with the this issue is running FreeBSD 8.1 and Bacula
>> 5.0.3 installed from the packages.
>
> OK, so it could be an OS bug too.
>
> Using /dev/sa2 on FreeBSD is not advisable -- can you try it with /dev/nsa2
> instead?
>
> What is the Device config for this drive in bacula-sd.conf? Is that identical
> to the production machines?
>
> Have you tried running the btape test?
>
> __Martin
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 2011-07-07, at 8:41 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:04:50 -0600, James Woodward said:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It's true, "Expected 0, got 20" sounds like the opposite problem.
>>>
>>> Which operating system is running on the SD and is that the same in
>>> production?
>>>
>>> __Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
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