Hello, The Bacula behavior is indeed correct (as programmed). This is an error, but it is not a fatal error. Note that the error message is in the conditional tense (maybe not obvious for non-mother tongue speakers), which means that the tape may not be readable, but that the only way to know for sure is to read the tape.
This can happen if the end of the tape has been reached and the drive does not permit writing the final EOF. As mentioned above, the only way to know for sure is to try to read the last files written to the tape. Given the uncertainty, it is not really justified to mark everything as failed, because it is extremely unlikely that the whole tape is bad or unreadable. You may correctly have a different opinion, but in that case you will either need to change the source code or after the fact, mark the tape as being unusable using bconsole. Best regards, Kern On 12/05/2013 10:34 AM, Andrey Lyarskiy wrote: > Greetings! Recently I have noticed that all jobs status are fine, > independently of write errors on tape drive. > > bacula.log: > 05-Dec 07:27 backup-sd-office JobId 66089: Error: block.c:577 Write error at > 280:554 on device "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error. > 05-Dec 07:27 backup-sd-office JobId 66089: Error: Error writing final EOF to > tape. This Volume may not be readable. > dev.c:1557 ioctl MTWEOF error on "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output > error. > 05-Dec 07:27 backup-sd-office JobId 66089: End of medium on Volume > "000842L5" Bytes=1,296,312,966,144 Blocks=20,094,136 at 05-Dec-2013 > 07:27. > > TapeLibrary - IBM 3573-TL with LTO5 tapes. > > Why bacula did not mark job #66089 as failed? IMHO after such error > all the jobs on this tape should be marked as possible-unreadable or > something like that. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK > Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. > Download it for free now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
