2011/10/18 Tom Plancon <tplan...@bkaarchs.com>: > Hi All, > I've purchased a "refurbished" IBM Ultrium LTO-2 tape drive, and I'm running > off a CentOS 5.6 system with Bacula 5.0.2. Generally it seems to work OK, > doing backups and restores. However, I see errors like the following: > > Connecting to Storage daemon Ultrium2 at emperor-ii:9103 ... > Sending label command for Volume "projTape-001" Slot 0 ... > > block.c:1016 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 0:0 on device "LTO-2" > (/dev/st0). ERR=Input/output error.
This is not really an error. This is actually a normal situation. A tape drive can only read bytes that have been written to a tape. So when bacula tries to read the header on a new tape, the tape drive / mt will send back an error. In the past there has been a few debates whether or not this message should have been filtered from the user but for now it is displayed. > > 3000 OK label. VolBytes=64512 DVD=0 Volume="projTape-001" Device="LTO-2" > (/dev/st0) > Catalog record for Volume "projTape-001", Slot 0 successfully created. > Requesting to mount LTO-2 ... > 3001 Device "LTO-2" (/dev/st0) is mounted with Volume "projTape-001" > > As you can see it completes the label successfully and does read and write > OK. Also I see an "orange" flashing light with a "2" in the LED display > frequently pop up. Usually running a cleaning tape and a "warm" reset with > the eject button clears this up for a while but then it re-appears. > > Any help on what these "errors" might mean and how to clear them up > permanently are appreciated! > > BTW - am I correct in thinking the mailing list on Sourceforge is NOT > searchable? > > Thanks. > > -- > Thomas E. Plancon > CAD/IS Manager > > B K A Architects, Inc. > 142 Crescent Street > Brockton, MA 02302 > > tel: 508 . 583 . 5603 ext 313 > fax: 508 . 584 . 2914 > www.bkaarchitects.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
