I have Bacula 5.0.3 on FreeBSD 8.2 backing up to an IBM Ultrium ULT3580 tape drive, using 400~800GB tapes, connected to an Adaptec 39320LPE Ultra320 SCSI adapter. I'm using SQLite and have 4GB of RAM.
I used to have a Quantum DLTV4 tape drive, but I was getting SCSI errors every few weeks, so I switched to the Ultrium. I've used 3 other tapes in this drive with no issues. This tape fails: # cat /var/log/messages Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): WRITE FILEMARKS(6). CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): SCSI status: Check Condition Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): SCSI sense: MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (Medium format corrupted) field replaceable unit: 30 Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): WRITE FILEMARKS(6). CDB: 10 0 0 0 2 0 Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): SCSI status: Check Condition Jan 21 00:44:00 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:6:0): SCSI sense: MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (Medium format corrupted) field replaceable unit: 30 # cat /var/db/bacula/log 21-Jan 00:43 bacula-server-sd JobId 1070: Committing spooled data to Volume "BSD2a". Despooling 9,641,289,685 bytes ... 21-Jan 00:43 bacula-server-sd JobId 1070: End of Volume "BSD2a" at 21:7164 on device "ULT3580" (/dev/nsa0). Write of 64512 bytes got 0. 21-Jan 00:44 bacula-server-sd JobId 1070: Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. This Volume may not be readable. dev.c:1745 ioctl MTWEOF error on "ULT3580" (/dev/nsa0). ERR=Input/output error. 21-Jan 00:44 bacula-server-sd JobId 1070: End of medium on Volume "BSD2a" Bytes=13,968,912,384 Blocks=216,531 at 21-Jan-2012 00:44. 21-Jan 00:44 bacula-server-sd JobId 1070: Job nti-bsd.2012-01-20_23.05.00_26 is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "ULT3580" (/dev/nsa0) Pool: Ultium Media type: LTO4 I've tried migrating the jobs from the tape, but I get: # cat /var/db/bacula/log 23-Jan 15:34 bacula-server-sd JobId 1079: Forward spacing Volume "BSD2a" to file:block 20:0. 23-Jan 15:35 bacula-server-sd JobId 1079: Error: block.c:1002 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 21:7163 on device "ULT3580" (/dev/nsa0). ERR=Operation not permitted. 23-Jan 15:35 bacula-server-sd JobId 1079: Error: Unexpected Tape is Off-line 23-Jan 15:35 bacula-server-dir JobId 1079: Error: Bacula bacula-server-dir 5.0.3 (04Aug10): 23-Jan-2012 15:35:54 I was able to write multi-tape btape fill to this tape with no errors. I haven't completed the read test, yet. Here's a sample error from my old Quantum DLTV4 drive, since I feel like these might be connected. Dec 14 03:34:35 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:5:0): SCSI status: Check Condition Dec 14 03:34:35 bsd kernel: (sa0:ahd0:0:5:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION csi:e0,40,0,2e asc:29,3 (Bus device reset function occurred) Dec 14 05:34:46 bsd kernel: ahd0: Recovery Initiated - Card was not paused Other things I've done: * Replaced the SCSI adapter * Replaced the SCSI cable and terminator Here's the current SCSI adapter info # dmesg ahd0: <Adaptec 39320LPE Ultra320 SCSI adapter> port 0xe400-0xe4ff,0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfbd7e000-0xfbd7ffff irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci4 ahd0: [ITHREAD] aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133MHz, 512 SCBs Only other thing I haven't done is move to MySQL since my bacula.db is about 3.6 GB holding ~18M files in 332 jobs: select sum(JobFiles) from job; +---------------+ | sum(JobFiles) | +---------------+ | 18685071 | +---------------+ Enter SQL query: select count(*) from job; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 332 | +----------+ I have no idea where else to look. Any help is appreciated! Nikola Lazic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users