I know this is probably a stupid question, but I've seen stupid questions
solve things in the past...
Are both your tape drive and tape at least LTO3? If your drive is LTO-3
and your tape is LTO-2, then your results make perfect sense.
-John
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Andre Rossouw <an...@arnet.co.za> wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction - faulty drive,
> incorrect settings, faulty tape.... (I hope it's something that simple)
>
> I've run the archive job again, and again Bacula has reported the media
> as full after just ~200GB. However when I do llist volume=<volumename>
> it reports a different "VolBytes" to "Last Volume Bytes", which I assume
> should be the same?
>
> Any idea's?
>
> 19-Apr 06:58 ubuntu-sd JobId 240: JobId=240
> Job="Archive.2012-04-19_02.26.11_03" marked to be canceled.
> 19-Apr 06:58 ubuntu-sd JobId 240: Job write elapsed time = 04:32:04,
> Transfer rate = 14.60 M Bytes/second
> 19-Apr 06:58 ubuntu-dir JobId 240: Bacula ubuntu-dir 5.0.1 (24Feb10):
> 19-Apr-2012 06:58:18
> Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ubuntu 10.04
> JobId: 240
> Job: Archive.2012-04-19_02.26.11_03
> Backup Level: Full
> Client: "ubuntu-fd" 5.0.1 (24Feb10)
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,ubuntu,10.04
> FileSet: "FileSet1" 2011-05-23 14:23:25
> Pool: "Pool1" (From Job resource)
> Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
> Storage: "LTO-3" (From Job resource)
> Scheduled time: 19-Apr-2012 02:26:06
> Start time: 19-Apr-2012 02:26:13
> End time: 19-Apr-2012 06:58:18
> Elapsed time: 4 hours 32 mins 5 secs
> Priority: 10
> FD Files Written: 9,215
> SD Files Written: 9,215
> FD Bytes Written: 238,439,334,305 (238.4 GB)
> SD Bytes Written: 238,437,145,970 (238.4 GB)
> Rate: 14605.8 KB/s
> Software Compression: None
> VSS: no
> Encryption: no
> Accurate: no
> Volume name(s): 20120419
> Volume Session Id: 1
> Volume Session Time: 1334794882
> Last Volume Bytes: 407,329,219,584 (407.3 GB)
> Non-fatal FD errors: 0
> SD Errors: 0
> FD termination status: Canceled
> SD termination status: Canceled
> Termination: Backup Canceled
>
> *llist volume=20120419
> MediaId: 51
> VolumeName: 20120419
> Slot: 0
> PoolId: 4
> MediaType: LTO-3
> FirstWritten: 2012-04-19 02:26:13
> LastWritten: 2012-04-19 04:54:25
> LabelDate: 2012-04-19 02:26:13
> VolJobs: 1
> VolFiles: 239
> VolBlocks: 3,698,757
> VolMounts: 1
> VolBytes: 238,614,276,096
> VolErrors: 0
> VolWrites: 3,698,759
> VolCapacityBytes: 0
> VolStatus: Full
> Enabled: 1
> Recycle: 1
> VolRetention: 315,360,000
> VolUseDuration: 0
> MaxVolJobs: 0
> MaxVolFiles: 0
> MaxVolBytes: 644,245,094,400
> InChanger: 0
> EndFile: 238
> EndBlock: 9,757
> VolParts: 0
> LabelType: 0
> StorageId: 2
> DeviceId: 0
> LocationId: 0
> RecycleCount: 0
> InitialWrite: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
> ScratchPoolId: 0
> RecyclePoolId: 0
> Comment: NULL
>
>
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 22:19 +0200, Andre Rossouw wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies. I still have 2 questions:
> >
> > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 19:37 +0200, ganiuszka wrote:
> > > 2012/4/18 Andre Rossouw <an...@arnet.co.za>:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > I have a system running Ubuntu 10.04 with Bacula 5.0.1. and a SCSI
> > > > Tandberg LTO-3 HH drive. It has been running without problems since
> > > > 2010. Last week it started writing ~200GB data to the media, and
> > > > reporting that the media is full.
> > > >
> > > > FD Bytes Written: 235,602,974,800 (235.6 GB)
> > > > SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B)
> > > > Rate: 12196.7 KB/s
> > > > Software Compression: None
> > > > Volume Session Time: 1334732079
> > > > Last Volume Bytes: 407,329,219,584 (407.3 GB)
> > > > --
> >
> > I see that the media is full. But I have purged and relabeled the tape
> > for testing. From reading the documentation, should this not have marked
> > the tape to be recycled? Or do I need to move the tape into the scratch
> > pool for this to happen?
> >
> > I have also run the btape fill command to test the drive and media
> > (after purging and relabeling). I get the following output:
> > btape: btape.c:2736 End of tape 201:0. Volume Bytes=200,404,463,616
> >
> > It is an LTO 3 tape, so I should get 400GB uncompressed?
> >
> > > It looks like on the tape is ~400GB data. Backup from above output has
> > > ~200GB data written. It looks well for me. Looking on 'Volume Session
> > > Id' it seems there also is some another backup. You can see jobs
> > > placed on this volume eg. by using bconsole.
> >
> > Apologies if I'm doing something silly, but is there a way I can "erase"
> > the tape to ensure that there is nothing on the tape? Other than purge
> > and relabel?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>
>
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