On Mon, May 6, 2019, at 10:46 PM, John R Zoch wrote:
> I'm running Bacula 9.4.2 on an FreeNAS 11.2-U3 in an iocage jail. Attached is
> an image from bat indicating a bunch of failed tapes. They passed the rewind
> - write EOF test.
>
The rewind-write EOF test is more a test of Bacula and the tape drive, not of
the tape itself.
That image from BAT shows the status of that tape in the Catalog. The Error
could be for reasons other than a bad tape.
To know for sure, you need to look at the job email, or the bacula log on the
system itself (provided there is one).
>
> Is there something I should try to make them usable again (a test/format of
> sorts) or is the Bacula error indication sufficient that I should just pull
> them from service?
>
> I've used "btape qfill" in the past but it only tests the first tape in the
> library. I'm not certain qfill verifies the data it wrote to the tape to
> provide some assurance that the tape is good.
Show us some of these errors and we'll know for sure if it's a tape error. It
could be drive loading error. It wanted tape X but couldn't load it, for
whatever reason.
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