Re: [Bacula-users] Data Loss on Tapes

2008-12-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Glen Davison wrote: The symptoms vary - sometimes there is an error at some point through the tape, and sometimes (suspiciously often) it seems to have lost the bacula label right at the start. These tapes were new, and the rate of these errors is far higher than I can

Re: [Bacula-users] Data Loss on Tapes

2008-12-02 Thread Jeff Kalchik
This system has had a history of problems, particularly scsi problems. Unfortunately, I'd suspect that this is the real source of your problems. Until you have a stable SCSI bus, anything sent down it is suspect. I wouldn't even be sure the data got written to tape. Jeff who's fighting loader

Re: [Bacula-users] Data Loss on Tapes

2008-12-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Glen Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Bacula Users, I have had an occasional, long-running problem with bacula. Every now and then, when I am trying to restore a file from tape, I find that the tape has apparently corrupted. The symptoms vary -

[Bacula-users] Data Loss on Tapes

2008-12-01 Thread Glen Davison
Dear Bacula Users, I have had an occasional, long-running problem with bacula. Every now and then, when I am trying to restore a file from tape, I find that the tape has apparently corrupted. The symptoms vary - sometimes there is an error at some point through the tape, and sometimes