Hello Kern / Rosjat,
I don't recommend but it was kind of funny setting Bacula director on Windows
machines:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/z-older-releases/bacula/3.0.3/
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Em 15 de maio de 2015 08:21:18 GMT-02:00, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com>
escreveu:
>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
>>
>
>
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