Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-09 Thread Sebastian Stark
You're right. I was confused :) On Wednesday 08 June 2005 22:56, Kern Sibbald wrote: That's true. But how can I make sure that I'm really able to restore the very last byte of the last file? If I just restore some file I'm still not sure that _everything_ is okay. Restore the last job on

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-09 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Thursday 09 June 2005 11:30, Alan Brown wrote: Considering the price of a good tape drive and tapes (or even of a few removable hard drives) a good UPS isn't particularly expensive. Our hardware is already connected to two different power circuits that _both_ went down for very silly

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 09 June 2005 11:19, Sebastian Stark wrote: You're right. I was confused :) On Wednesday 08 June 2005 22:56, Kern Sibbald wrote: That's true. But how can I make sure that I'm really able to restore the very last byte of the last file? If I just restore some file I'm still

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Kadau
Hi! Anyway: Thank you _very_ much for your help. And it's good to know that bacula survives this kind of desaster. It was designed that way (not very hard), and it is good that you have confirmed it -- I'll add some notes to the manual based on your experiences ... Uhm, just to straighten

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-09 Thread Alan Brown
Considering the price of a good tape drive and tapes (or even of a few removable hard drives) a good UPS isn't particularly expensive. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How

[Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Stark
After a power outage the tape that was currently in the drive can not be used anymore. If bacula tries to append data the drive seems stuck in seeking mode. After a while the kernel (Solaris 10) gives the following error message: Jun 8 10:27:52 yangtse scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Requested

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Stark
Update: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:23, Sebastian Stark wrote: btape scanblocks is able to read the tape up to file ??? (is still running). After a few hours I get: Jun 8 14:01:08 yangtse SCSI transport failed: reason 'timeout': giving up Jun 8 14:01:08 yangtse btape[4277]: [ID

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 14:23, Sebastian Stark wrote: Update: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:23, Sebastian Stark wrote: btape scanblocks is able to read the tape up to file ??? (is still running). After a few hours I get: Jun 8 14:01:08 yangtse SCSI transport failed: reason

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium error after power outage

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Stark
Thanks for answering. On Wednesday 08 June 2005 14:55, Kern Sibbald wrote: I am pretty sure it's just a few bytes that got corrupted. What can I do access my data? I suspect that you are confused about the difference in how Bacula handles writing a tape and reading a tape. It is clear