Hello, As far as I know, there was never any Bacula version 3.
Where did you get the binaries? What is the exact version you are running? Is your OS Window 2003 SBS? (if I am not wrong, this system is no longer supported). It sounds like your SD is running on a Windows machine and you are probably running a *very* old or non-existent version of Bacula. Although there were a few Windows versions that had a Director and a Storage daemon, the Windows SD and Director have never been fully supported, and especially writing to tape. In fact if you are using Windows to write to tape, I would be interested to hear about it, and in any case, if it is a Windows system, I am not surprised to hear that there are problems because I have never had a Windows system with an attached tape drive to test. Best regards, Kern On 14.05.2015 13:47, Markus Rosjat wrote: > Hi there, > > we had this toic befor and I#m back again... > > My Backupjobs started to use less tape space then expected a year ago > the System is quiet aged so this is running on a 2003 SBS with a bacula > version 3 > > Like I said it started from one day to the other that tapes got written > on but less then the expected 350+ GB for a LTO3 tape. what Ive done so > far: > > - changed terminator > - canged cable > - changed the drive > - changed the whole autoloader > - used brand new tapes > - cleaned drive a dozen times > - used HP tools to check for problems > > nothing really help, in fact its getting even worse. We started with 3 > tapes for less then 1TB and now Im at 6 tapes for 1,2 TB of data. I get > this line for every Tape that reaches the "end" of the tape or better > bacula thinks its the end > > 02-May 17:12 fg-back-sd JobId 11840: Error: Error writing final EOF to > tape. This Volume may not be readable. > /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/stored/dev.c:1723 ioctl MTWEOF error on > "LTO3" (Tape0). ERR=Input/output error. > > but some post on the list suggest this is normal for a windows > environement and I got this when all worked well too. The strange part > is I havent changed any config at all. since I know some people will > tell me without logs and stuff there is nothing to tell I will not ask > for possible causes because we going to change the backup in autmn > anyway and we will move on from bacula with all the problems we had over > the last year. > > But back to my question, is there any thing that bacula does to mark the > end of a tape even its not the end? And additional is it possible to > remove this marker (if it exist possibly in the database) . Like I said > in my opinion its not passible that 4 brand new tapes have errors > arround 200GB of written data. > > Regards > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
