Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-07 Thread Brian Debelius
Although it will generate lots output, have you tried turning on debugging on the DIR and SD to see if anything shows up there? On 2/6/2012 8:15 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: In the message dated: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:41 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on Re:

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-07 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:15:10 -0500, mark bergman said: In the message dated: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:41 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backu ps unreadable were: = = = When the current

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-06 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:04:44 -0500, mark bergman said: I've added more logging to /etc/init.d/bacula-sd to confirm when tapes are ejected and to timestamp the SCSI release commands. Is it possible that bacula flagged tapes 003231 and 000312 as being in the drives because they were loaded

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-06 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:41 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backu ps unreadable were: Martin, Thanks again for continuing to respond...I appreciate the feedback and troubleshooting

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-03 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:12:11 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backu ps unreadable were: = On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:55:24 -0500, mark bergman said: = = The fact that the server rebooted

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-30 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:55:24 -0500, mark bergman said: The fact that the server rebooted between job 42856 and job 42879 makes me wonder if something in the fibre/SCSI initialization or bacula-sd startup causes tapes to be rewound but not ejected. The bacula-sd startup will rewind the tape,

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread Brian Debelius
...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:30:44 PST, The pithy ruminations from Steve Ellis on Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable were: = On 1/24/12 2:22 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Brian Debelius bdebel...@intelesyscorp.com wrote: I just want to say that I have seen this recently too.  I have a set of LTO-3 tapes that I am now relabeling as I use them because the labels have become unreadable.  All I can add right now is that that

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread John Drescher
I just checked the config on that server and I am using /dev/nst0.  Its just odd.  I have never encountered this before in my ~5 years of running bacula. I have not seen it on my side yet. John -- Keep Your Developer

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:31 -0500, mark bergman said: I'm experiencing a critical problem where tape labels on volumes with data get corrupted, leaving all data on the tape inaccessible to bacula. I'm running bacula 5.2.2 built from source, under Linux (CentOS 5.7 x86_64). This

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:30:44 PST, The pithy ruminations from Steve Ellis on Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable were: = On 1/24/12 2:22 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: = In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19

[Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-23 Thread mark . bergman
I'm experiencing a critical problem where tape labels on volumes with data get corrupted, leaving all data on the tape inaccessible to bacula. I'm running bacula 5.2.2 built from source, under Linux (CentOS 5.7 x86_64). This problem has happened with approximately 15 tapes over approximately 6