Hi there. I have a very cool Bacula installation on gentoo, backuping on a dell PV 124T with LTO5 tape. Everything works ok... almost.
I have no problem backuping and restoring over several volume. However i get trouble when come the time to recycle tape. Bacula try to recycle tape, and that's ok with me. But when it tries, i don't know what's happening but it seems it detroys the tape header (with the volume name on it). For instance, a tape name is flagged to be recycled. so far i can read the tape header using btape /dev/nst0 and: -- flag as recycle, but not tried yet -- *readlabel btape: btape.c:528 Volume label read correctly. Volume Label: Id : Bacula 1.0 immortal VerNo : 11 VolName : 000017L5 PrevVolName : VolFile : 0 LabelType : VOL_LABEL LabelSize : 164 PoolName : AllIncrementals MediaType : LTO-5 PoolType : Backup HostName : gozer Date label written: 21-Mar-2011 01:29 This tape is FLAGGED, but has not been tried to be reused yet. Now here is a tape that has been tried to be reuse: -- flag as recycle and tried to be -- *readlabel 06-Dec 12:07 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:1002 Read error on fd=3 at file:blk 0:0 on device "Batman" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error. btape: btape.c:525 Volume has no label. Volume Label: Id : **error**VerNo : 0 VolName : PrevVolName : VolFile : 0 LabelType : Unknown 0 LabelSize : 0 PoolName : MediaType : PoolType : HostName : Date label written: -4712-01-01 at 00:00 * Clearly, it seems that my bacula is erasing the label on the tape at some point, and then is unable to reuse it. What's wrong with me ? So far, the only thing i've been able to do was to destroy the volume completly in the database and create a new one with the same label, as bacula just don't agree with relabeling a tape with a name which is already in the DB. This is not really what i think about Automatic recycling. Please help me ! -- David Vandergucht dav....@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
