>>>>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:06:09 -0600, Jason King said:
> 
> Oh, the message said that the number of "files" on the tape was a 
> different number than was in the catalog. How would that have happened? 

The most common reason is misconfiguration of Bacula or the tape drive (either
now or when the tape was written).


> How do I check to see how many "files" or whatever are on the tape so I 
> can adjust the catalog?

The job report will tell you how many files Bacula saw on the tape that time,
but you'll need to find out why it went wrong, because otherwise you'll risk
losing backups in the future.

__Martin


> 
> Jason
> 
> Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:04:43 -0600, Jason King said:
> >>>>>>             
> >> I ran my backups last night and my tape filled up. The daemon sent me an 
> >> email which told me to change the tape out which I did, and the backup 
> >> continued normally. After the backup completed I was looking at some 
> >> details of the jobs and noticed that the previous tape was in an "error" 
> >> status. I can change the status, I know, but my question is, why would 
> >> the tape be in an error status in the first place? Does having the tape 
> >> fill all the way up cause it to error...I would think the tape should be 
> >> labeled full not error.
> >>     
> >
> > Correct, it should not have the error status.  The email from the job or the
> > console output should say why it was marked as error.
> >
> > Have you tested your setup with the btest fill command?
> >
> > __Martin
> >   
> 

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