Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-09 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:17:33 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 February 2009 13:10:12 Martin Simmons wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:17:33 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-09 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:31:20 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: On Monday 09 February 2009 13:10:12 Martin Simmons wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:17:33 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it appears to me that you have lost significant data.

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 07 February 2009 12:26:12 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more

[Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it appears to me that you have lost significant data. This is probably due

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Hello, The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it appears to me that you have lost significant data. This is probably

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 05 February 2009 12:48:18 Ralf Gross wrote: Hello, The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it appears to

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Thursday 05 February 2009 12:48:18 Ralf Gross wrote: Hello, The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a misconfigured tape drive. From the information I

[Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I have a problem with a new lto-4 tape. Only 411 GB were written on it, then bacula detected an write error. JobId 9250: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 411:14724 on device ULTRIUM-TD4-D2 (/dev/ULTRIUM-TD4-D2). ERR=Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. JobId 9250: Error: Re-read of last

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: Hi, I have a problem with a new lto-4 tape. Only 411 GB were written on it, then bacula detected an write error. JobId 9250: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 411:14724 on device ULTRIUM-TD4-D2 (/dev/ULTRIUM-TD4-D2). ERR=Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. JobId

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: After reloading it, the tape was positioned at the beginning, where Bacula requires its tape label. Bacula knw it could append, so it simply started writing - it did not position the tape to the correct position. I remember asking over a year ago if

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 02 February 2007 12:21, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: After reloading it, the tape was positioned at the beginning, where Bacula requires its tape label. Bacula knw it could append, so it simply started writing - it did not position the tape to the

[Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Maybe I did something really stupid. I ejected an already bacula-mounted tape and inserted a cleaning cartridge. After the cleaning process was finished I reinserted the backup tape. I did it without an unmount/mount cycle. When the backup run later started the tape was ejected with tape error

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:50:10 +0100, Erik P Olsen said: Maybe I did something really stupid. I ejected an already bacula-mounted tape and inserted a cleaning cartridge. After the cleaning process was finished I reinserted the backup tape. I did it without an unmount/mount cycle. When the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:50:10 +0100, Erik P Olsen said: Maybe I did something really stupid. I ejected an already bacula-mounted tape and inserted a cleaning cartridge. After the cleaning process was finished I reinserted the backup tape. I did it without an

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 01 February 2007 21:01, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:50:10 +0100, Erik P Olsen said: Maybe I did something really stupid. I ejected an already bacula-mounted tape and inserted a cleaning cartridge. After the cleaning process was finished

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Julien Cigar
Sorry to ask this again, but .. it could be one of the reason why my tape drive doesn't work properly: is it not safe to press the eject button when the tape is mounted by Bacula (AlwaysOpen=yes) but no jobs are running ? If it's not safe then I suggest to add a remark about this in the FAQ ...

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:18, Julien Cigar wrote: Sorry to ask this again, but .. it could be one of the reason why my tape drive doesn't work properly: I've read a huge number of emails today and answered a good number of them, but I wasn't aware that your tape drive doesn't work or

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error.

2007-02-01 Thread Julien Cigar
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 22:31 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:18, Julien Cigar wrote: Sorry to ask this again, but .. it could be one of the reason why my tape drive doesn't work properly: I've read a huge number of emails today and answered a good number of them,

[Bacula-users] Tape error

2006-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
Today I got the tape error 08-Sep 09:43 pentagram-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume SDLT008. Despooling 10,034,619,918 bytes ... 08-Sep 09:43 pentagram-sd: backup-heptagram.2006-09-08_09.40.23 Error: block.c:538 Write error at 0:2 on device SDLT6K-1 (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the tape to used and let it expire, or purge it if the incomplete backup is the only thing on the tape. This is good advice. It avoids the possibility of having an unreadable tape. If you can repeat the exact

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 15 September 2005 11:17, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the tape to used and let it expire, or purge it if the incomplete backup is the only thing on the tape. This is good advice. It avoids the possibility

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-15 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On Wed

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-15 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:13, Alan Brown wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Arunav Mandal wrote: I understand this is a known bug, fixed in CVS. What happens when I change the error to Append manually will the tape be used again? I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
On 14.09.2005 10:42, Arunav Mandal wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:23

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 14.09.2005 10:42, Arunav Mandal wrote: - Original

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
On 14.09.2005 11:09, Arunav Mandal wrote: ... Tried it again bacula marked it as Error. Did you read the message from Phil from 13.09.2005 19:37? Yes but how to do that? For example using the sqlquery command from the console. If you don't know SQL or baculas catalog layout, you

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Arunav Mandal wrote: I understand this is a known bug, fixed in CVS. What happens when I change the error to Append manually will the tape be used again? I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the tape to used and let it expire, or purge it if the incomplete backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Arunav Mandal wrote: Tried it again bacula marked it as Error. Did you read the message from Phil from 13.09.2005 19:37? Yes but how to do that? Try this -- in the console: [you type:] sql [bacula responds:] Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula Entering SQL query mode.

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Arno, If this is happening on 1.37.38, then it certainly merits a bug report. A bug report is the only way I can properly deal with a complicated problem. Please don't worry about lengthy reports -- that is not a problem. What is important is that I can either see the problem or

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:13, Alan Brown wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Arunav Mandal wrote: I understand this is a known bug, fixed in CVS. What happens when I change the error to Append manually will the tape be used again? I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the tape to

[Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have seen errors given below quite often even with new tapes. This happens mostly when I try to restore files from a tape that has been recently written and got a Append tag. It restores fine but when it try to write again this error comes up maybe because the tape media has moved forward or

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors given below quite often even with new tapes. This happens mostly when I try to restore files from a tape that has been recently written and got a Append tag. It restores fine but when it try to write again this error comes up

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:23, Arunav Mandal wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Arunav Mandal wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: Error: I canot write on Volume SDLT010 because: The number of files mismatch! Volume=303 Catalog=301 13-Sep 16:32 abc-sd: Marking Volume SDLT010 in Error in

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:07, Dan Langille wrote: On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors given below quite often even with new tapes. This happens mostly when I try to restore files from a tape that has been recently written and got a Append tag. It restores

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:07