>>>>> On Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:15:22 +0200, Ian Douglas said: > > On Monday, 03 June 2019 11:44:34 SAST Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > > It's by design. The "Error" state for a tape means it's defective and should > > not be used anymore. If you want Bacula to use it again (and i you are sure > > what you are doing) you have to change its state manually from "Error" to > > something else, eg. "Used". > > So noted, thanks. > > I'm sure the tape is fine, the problem is that when we have power outages > during a backup my network goes down and then Bacula gets confused. > > I have UPS on bacula-dir machine and tape drive controller and tape drive, > just one LAN switch that still needs to be connected to a UPS... and that's > causing the problems.
You have to look at the Bacula logs to see why it marked the tape as "Error". Some reasons are benign (like the one you described). __Martin _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
