On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:07 PM, UserMOP <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > Hello, > > First time poster, love the community, been reading it for years but never > had an issue worth posting, until today. :) > > Using Bacula Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010). > > Our brand new LTO3 tapes are filling up too quick. Tapes that normally take > 420GB are full at 320GB. This is a major concern for us. Please advise as to > what may be causing this? >
Dirty or Bad tape drive or bad media are the most common causes. Remember bacula will write to a tape until the drive returns the write did not succeed and at that point bacula assumes that the tape is full. Bacula does not know the difference between tape write error or a full tape. > Example: > > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | > VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten > | > +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+----------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ > | 1 | Tape 1 | Full | 1 | 325,470,071,808 | 326 | > 31,536,000,000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | LTO3 | 2012-11-16 12:26:42 > | > > All our tapes show VolStatus like this, brand new or used only ones (which > was 420GB Full) > > I am sorry I do not know how to make this selection a quote. > > Thankyou in advance. > :P > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by goran....@momento.com.au via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
