Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 22:31, Ryan Novosielski wrote: One other thing to note -- sometimes the tape drive will improperly determine the tape size for whatever reason. I have had experience with a DLT7000 drive that, for whatever reason, initialized a tape to 15GB. After that, I had to

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-26 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 26.10.2005 09:53, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 22:31, Ryan Novosielski wrote: One other thing to note -- sometimes the tape drive will improperly determine the tape size for whatever reason. I have had experience with a DLT7000 drive that, for whatever reason,

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:36, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 26.10.2005 09:53, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 22:31, Ryan Novosielski wrote: One other thing to note -- sometimes the tape drive will improperly determine the tape size for whatever reason. I have had

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Bober
I've got a SDLT/320 changer I use for some fulls, and a SDLT/220 changer I use for weeklies and other fulls. As I expire tapes from our previous backup system, I'll usually want to make sure I've gone through the tapes I've put in the 320 and write EOF to each tape, so that the drive

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
OK, thanks. I'll add a note in the manual to check the density ... On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:34, Mark Bober wrote: I've got a SDLT/320 changer I use for some fulls, and a SDLT/220 changer I use for weeklies and other fulls. As I expire tapes from our previous backup system, I'll

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Anwar Ahmad wrote: Interestingly, I've relabeled a 40/80 tape that was originally in the pool that backed up from pool1 (the one with the problem) and put it into pool2 (working normally) and it works correctly. I thought about the physical tape drive causing the problem

[Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-17 Thread Anwar Ahmad
Hi All, I have this problem where I've got a mix of 20/40GB and 40/80GB DLT tapes that are in 1 pool configured to backup using 1 tape drive. The problem is, all of them seem to be acting like 20/40GB tapes including the higher capacity ones. I've not been able to get the 40/80GB tape to

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
Anwar Ahmad wrote: Hi All, I have this problem where I've got a mix of 20/40GB and 40/80GB DLT tapes that are in 1 pool configured to backup using 1 tape drive. The problem is, all of them seem to be acting like 20/40GB tapes including the higher capacity ones. I've not been able to get the

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-17 Thread Anwar Ahmad
Hi Phil, No worries, I've checked that both are DLT2 drives. Specifically they are HP SureStore Autoloaders. Both were bough at the same time from HP directly. They were also configured identically. We initially had a bunch of DLT tapes around (10 or so) from our old HP server which had an

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-17 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Were the tapes ever used in a DLT1 drive? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl