Sounds to me like the media are going bad or your drive is dirty. Clean your drive and possibly try a brand new tape.
deann corum wrote: > We're using Bacula 1.36.3 (yea, I know - old) on CentOS 3 (yea, I know > - old) with AIT3 tapes (which store about 150 GB each) in an 8-tape > changer (Sony Stor-Station LIB-81). > > Suddenly, Bacula has started marking tapes as 'Full' when only a few > files have been written to them and only a few GB. We haven't changed > anything on the system or any settings recently. Below are examples of > what I'm seeing on three of the tapes that Bacula has marked as Full: > > Tape 1: 10,788,852,486 | 12 files - about 10-11 GB > Tape 2: 1,026,192,264 | 1 file - about 1 GB > Tape 3: 5,899,324,539 | 25 files - about 6 GB > > Having used Bacula for a while, I know these tapes hold much more data > than that and this is absolutely not right. > > These are previously used Bacula tapes which have had the index erased > (weof). We recycle them after a period of time, but have never had a > problem with this. In my syslog file I see: > > pr 11 01:46:39 stash st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1b, > Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error > Apr 11 01:46:39 stash Additional sense indicates Write error > > I can see that the drive doesn't like the tapes but am not sure why it > suddenly can't write to them beyond a certain point. Anyone have any > possible explanations for this? > ------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
