> > I've been using bacula-sd and bacula-dir under windows for a bit and so > far it's worked well except for two occasions. Just now, and maybe a > week ago, bacula decided that it had reached the end of tape (I think > there was an error there). This happened again shortly after, but the > problem appeared to go away after restarting bacula-sd. When it happened > a week ago, I put it down to a problem with Windows updates which were > installing or had just finished installing when the backup job was > running. > > So to restate what I just said: > . backup-sd says end of tape due to write error (about 83G into the job) > . I cancel the job, purge the volume, and restart using the same volume > . bacula-sd does the same again, but not at the same point > . I cancel the job, purge the volume, restart bacula-sd, and restart the > job using the same volume again > . the backup works fine, and subsequent backups worked fine for a week > or so. > > I'm using bacula 3.0.1 (x64 version of bacula-fd, i386 version of > everything else). The drive is a HP LTO3 drive (400/800G capacity). The > normal job size is about 220G. > > Windows reports no errors in the logs (eg no scsi errors). I have run HP > L&TT tools and it declares that everything is fine, although I haven't > run it since the most recent failure. > > Is anyone else using bacula-sd under windows and can tell me what their > experience is? Given the "unsupported" disclaimer for -sd and -dir under > windows, I'm not ruling out a bug in -sd... >
Actually even after restarting bacula-sd, it happened again. I will run some more extensive tests on the hardware. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
