In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > ... > What the hell is that? ... > >Running Bacula 1.38.5 on Linux.
The Linux SCSI tape device driver has default settings which cause a lot of problems whenever you try to run multivolume backups. For details please see "man 4 st". Most critical options are: MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES, MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES, MT_ST_READ_AHEAD. Especially the combination of MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES and MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES prevents any way to reliably handle end of tape conditions. Try if it helps to turn off all these options by issuing the command: "mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind ; mt -f /dev/nst0 stoptions 0" after mounting a tape; if this is an autoloader device, add these commands to your mtx-changer script after loading a tape. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is your destiny. - Darth Vader ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
