Backup Central

I ran my backups last night and my tape filled up. The daemon sent me an
email which told me to change the tape out which I did, and the backup
continued normally. After the backup completed I was looking at some
details of the jobs and noticed that the previous tape was in an "error"
status. I can change the status, I know, but my question is, why would
the tape be in an error status in the first place? Does having the tape
fill all the way up cause it to error...I would think the tape should be
labeled full not error.

THanks,
Jason King

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:04:43 -0600, Jason King said:

I ran my backups last night and my tape filled up. The daemon sent me an
email which told me to change the tape out which I did, and the backup
continued normally. After the backup completed I was looking at some
details of the jobs and noticed that the previous tape was in an "error"
status. I can change the status, I know, but my question is, why would
the tape be in an error status in the first place? Does having the tape
fill all the way up cause it to error...I would think the tape should be
labeled full not error.

Correct, it should not have the error status. The email from the job or the
console output should say why it was marked as error.

Have you tested your setup with the btest fill command?

__Martin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Drescher <drescherjm < at > gm...>
Date: Mar 2, 2007 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape is in "error" status after tape fills up
To: Jason King <jking < at > in...>

On 3/2/07, Jason King <jking < at > in...> wrote:
I ran my backups last night and my tape filled up. The daemon sent me an
email which told me to change the tape out which I did, and the backup
continued normally. After the backup completed I was looking at some
details of the jobs and noticed that the previous tape was in an "error"
status. I can change the status, I know, but my question is, why would
the tape be in an error status in the first place? Does having the tape
fill all the way up cause it to error...I would think the tape should be
labeled full not error.

It should not do that. Is this the same tape that you were asking
about that had 215G? Perhaps there was an error. Did you check your
system error log for scsi or other related errors? Also running btest
as Martin said is recommended.

John

--
John M. Drescher

Oh, the message said that the number of "files" on the tape was a
different number than was in the catalog. How would that have happened?
How do I check to see how many "files" or whatever are on the tape so I
can adjust the catalog?

Jason

Martin Simmons wrote:
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:04:43 -0600, Jason King said:

I ran my backups last night and my tape filled up. The daemon sent me an
email which told me to change the tape out which I did, and the backup
continued normally. After the backup completed I was looking at some
details of the jobs and noticed that the previous tape was in an "error"
status. I can change the status, I know, but my question is, why would
the tape be in an error status in the first place? Does having the tape
fill all the way up cause it to error...I would think the tape should be
labeled full not error.


Correct, it should not have the error status. The email from the job or the
console output should say why it was marked as error.

Have you tested your setup with the btest fill command?

__Martin

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:06:09 -0600, Jason King said:

Oh, the message said that the number of "files" on the tape was a
different number than was in the catalog. How would that have happened?

The most common reason is misconfiguration of Bacula or the tape drive (either
now or when the tape was written).

How do I check to see how many "files" or whatever are on the tape so I
can adjust the catalog?

The job report will tell you how many files Bacula saw on the tape that time,
but you'll need to find out why it went wrong, because otherwise you'll risk
losing backups in the future.

__Martin


Jason

Martin Simmons wrote:
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:04:43 -0600, Jason King said:

I ran my backups last night and my tape filled up. The daemon sent me an
email which told me to change the tape out which I did, and the backup
continued normally. After the backup completed I was looking at some
details of the jobs and noticed that the previous tape was in an "error"
status. I can change the status, I know, but my question is, why would
the tape be in an error status in the first place? Does having the tape
fill all the way up cause it to error...I would think the tape should be
labeled full not error.


Correct, it should not have the error status. The email from the job or the
console output should say why it was marked as error.

Have you tested your setup with the btest fill command?

__Martin