Did the restart happen in the middle of a backup? Does the backup error occur after you unmount the tape from bconole, eject it and then insert and mount it again, without rebooting?
__Martin >>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:52:09 +0100 (CET), Christian Lehmann said: > > Dear all, > > from time to time I get an error after I restart the server running my > bacula director and also a storage daemon with an Tandberg LTO-5 HH. > > The current bacula version is 9.6.3 (9th March 2020) on a Debian machine. > > The situation is: > > Bacula has made some backups to a tape in the drive, but the tape isn't > full yet. > > Than a restart of the machine is happing (for example due to a Kernel > update). So bacula is shutting down and the tape is rewinded. > > After restart, as soon as I initiate a backup job, bacula tries the > positioning to the end of the tape to write the data (in this case I just > run a small backup job of my bacula database). > > However, he fails to do so, with the error "ERFOLG" (which is German and > means SUCCESS). So I do not understand what is happening there. Has someone > come accross such a behaviour? > > 18-Mär 13:19 fritzie15-dir JobId 12352: shell command: run BeforeJob > "/etc/bacula/make_catalog_backup bacula bacula VERY_SAFE_PASSWORD_XXX" > 18-Mär 13:19 fritzie15-dir JobId 12352: Start Backup JobId 12352, > Job=Bacula_Catalog.2020-03-18_13.19.09_03 > 18-Mär 13:19 fritzie15-dir JobId 12352: Using Device "LTO-5" to write. > 18-Mär 13:19 fritzie15-sd JobId 12352: Volume "LTO-5-Tape0027" previously > written, moving to end of data. > 18-Mär 13:20 fritzie15-sd JobId 12352: Error: Unable to position to end of > data on Tape device "LTO-5" (/dev/nst0): ERR=tape_dev.c:363 ioctl MTIOCGET > error on "LTO-5" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Erfolg. > 18-Mär 13:20 fritzie15-sd JobId 12352: Marking Volume "LTO-5-Tape0027" in > Error in Catalog. > > Now, I am a bit afraid, because I do not know, if a restore of the backuped > data would work. > > Thank you all in advance! > > Best, > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
