On 12/06/2011 11:35 AM, David Vandergucht wrote: > 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 ! > >
Are you using truncate after purge ? http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_1.html#SECTION00910000000000000000 Could explain what you see on your tape Truncate is usefull (if any) for File -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
