>>>>> On Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:15:22 +0200, Ian Douglas said:
> 
> On Monday, 03 June 2019 11:44:34 SAST Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > It's by design. The "Error" state for a tape means it's defective and should
> > not be used anymore. If you want Bacula to use it again (and i you are sure
> > what you are doing) you have to change its state manually from "Error" to
> > something else, eg. "Used".
> 
> So noted, thanks. 
> 
> I'm sure the tape is fine, the problem is that when we have power outages 
> during a backup my network goes down and then Bacula gets confused. 
> 
> I have UPS on bacula-dir machine and tape drive controller and tape drive, 
> just one LAN switch that still needs to be connected to a UPS... and that's 
> causing the problems.

You have to look at the Bacula logs to see why it marked the tape as "Error".
Some reasons are benign (like the one you described).

__Martin


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