When the director stopped at ~1.5TB, did it report any other messages
(e.g. I/O errors)?
I suggest looking in the system logs / console for messages around that time
as well.
__Martin
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:30:31 +0100, Kevin Hodges said:
>
> hi
>
> I came across a problem recently after installing a new single tape
> drive for backups. This is a HPE LTO-8 Ultrium machine connected to a
> Redhat linux box: Linux swlx1.rdg.ac.uk 3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64
>
> The problem occured whilst performing a backup that consists of several
> millions of files which are several TB in total size. The backup
> stopped after writing ~1.5TB with the director reporting the volume was
> full and asking for a new labelled volume. LTO-8 should take at least
> 12TB (native). This was a surprise but I thought it might be a tape
> problem so I unmounted the tape and tried to load a new tape to label
> it and mount it to continue but I could not load the new blank tape.
> It seemed like the machine continually tried to load the tape without
> success and I had to keep pressing the eject button to extract the
> tape.
>
> Thinking this might be a hardware problem I stopped the backup shutdown
> the bacula daemons and ran all the vendor tests which came back as
> reporting no errors. On restarting the bacula daemons I found I was
> able to load the tapes again and re-start the backup.
>
> So my question is if this is not a hardware or tape problem what
> prevents me loading a new tape and labelling during an ongoing backup
> job, is there some way to pause the backup to allow a new tape to be
> labelled?
>
> My storage config is:
>
> Device {
> Name = LTO-8
> Media Type = LTO-8
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> AutoChanger = no
> Spool Directory = /opt/bacula/working2
> Maximum Spool Size = 100GB
> Maximum Job Spool Size = 50GB
> }
>
> Should the AutomaticMount be set to 'no' to stop attempts to
> automatically mount any new tape even if it is not labelled?
>
> The issue of the tape being labelled full well before its capacity is
> still a mystery.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Kevin
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