Hi everybody, I am trying to figure out what is happening with my backups. I don't think the problem is with bacula, but I thought I'd ask here in case someone experienced the same problem.
I am using a HP Ultrium-3 auto loader, but not using the autochanger feature, just manually changing the tapes when needed. The full backups are done using 800GB(2:1 compression) LTO-3 tapes. My full backups are just under 300GB, but sometimes bacula thinks the tape is full after writing about 230GB to it and requests a new tape. I have enabled hardware compression, but it still writes less than the uncompressed capacity of the tape. Any clues on what might be causing this ? Below are some information. Thanks Bruno [r...@dracula bacula]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP ' Product ID: 'Ultrium 3-SCSI ' Revision: 'D22W' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: 'HU10802KLK' MinBlock: 1 MaxBlock: 16777215 SCSI ID: 4 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: Not Loaded Density Code: 0x42 BlockSize: 0 DataCompEnabled: yes DataCompCapable: yes DataDeCompEnabled: yes CompType: 0x1 DeCompType: 0x1 Block Position: 378367 Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 200448 Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 200448 ActivePartition: 0 EarlyWarningSize: 0 NumPartitions: 0 MaxPartitions: 0 bacula-sd.conf: Device { Name = StorageWorks Media Type = LTO Archive Device = /dev/nst0 AutomaticMount = yes AlwaysOpen = no RemovableMedia = yes RandomAccess = no AutoChanger = no #Changer Command = "/usr/lib64/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a d" #Changer Device = /dev/sg1 Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error /dev/nst0'" Spool Directory = /var/spool/bacula Maximum Spool Size = 50GB HP LTT: Product ID : Ultrium 3-SCSI Drive Technology : LTO Mech. Serial Number : HU10802KLK Firmware Rev : D22W/MSL G3/1x8 G2 Target ID : 4 Target LUN : 0 OBDR Capability : Not Present WORM Capability : Present Cartridge Information (for cartridge currently in drive): Cartridge Type : LTO 3 Data * Capacity : 800 GB (assumes 2:1 data compression) Write Protected : No Serial ID : SLOT0000 30-Dec 05:30 dracula-dir JobId 877: Start Backup JobId 877, Job=rhino.2008-12-29_22.00.32 30-Dec 05:33 dracula-dir JobId 877: Using Device "StorageWorks" 30-Dec 05:33 dracula-sd JobId 877: Spooling data ... 30-Dec 07:03 dracula-sd JobId 877: User specified spool size reached. 30-Dec 07:03 dracula-sd JobId 877: Writing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 27,811,908,212 bytes ... 30-Dec 07:14 dracula-sd JobId 877: Despooling elapsed time = 00:10:57, Transfer rate = 42.33 M bytes/second 30-Dec 07:15 dracula-sd JobId 877: Spooling data again ... 30-Dec 09:50 dracula-sd JobId 877: User specified spool size reached. 30-Dec 09:50 dracula-sd JobId 877: Writing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 50,000,033,648 bytes ... 30-Dec 10:10 dracula-sd JobId 877: Despooling elapsed time = 00:19:42, Transfer rate = 42.30 M bytes/second 30-Dec 10:11 dracula-sd JobId 877: Spooling data again ... 30-Dec 12:24 dracula-sd JobId 877: Job write elapsed time = 06:50:55, Transfer rate = 4.968 M bytes/second 30-Dec 12:24 dracula-sd JobId 877: Committing spooled data to Volume "NIX-DME-DEC-2008". Despooling 44,805,130,929 bytes ... 30-Dec 12:24 dracula-sd JobId 877: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 226:14539 on device "StorageWorks" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error. 30-Dec 12:24 dracula-sd JobId 877: Error: Re-read of last block OK, but block numbers differ. Last block=774904 Current block=1. 30-Dec 12:24 dracula-sd JobId 877: End of medium on Volume "NIX-DME-DEC-2008" Bytes=223,406,346,240 Blocks=3,463,019 at 30-Dec-2008 12:24. 30-Dec 12:24 dracula-sd JobId 877: Job rhino.2008-12-29_22.00.32 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "StorageWorks" (/dev/nst0) Pool: NIX-DME-MONTHLY Media type: LTO New to NET-A-PORTER.COM: 6 fabulous boutiques! http://www.net-a-porter.com/boutiques ______________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Net a Porter Ltd. Net A Porter Ltd is a company registered in England & Wales Number: 3820604 Registered Office: The Dome, Whiteleys Centre, 151 Queensway, London, W2 4YN. _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users