Re: [Bacula-users] tape not being used to full capacity

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply,

There are no errors at all on dmesg though.

I am going to try swapping the cable.


Bruno



John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Bruno Almeida
> <bruno.almeida AT net-a-porter DOT com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I am trying to figure out what is happening with my backups. I don't
>> think the problem is with bacula, but I thought I'd ask here in case
>> someone experienced the same problem.
>>
>> I am using a HP Ultrium-3 auto loader, but not using the autochanger
>> feature, just manually changing the tapes when needed.
>>
>>
>> The full backups are done using 800GB(2:1 compression) LTO-3 tapes. My
>> full backups are just under 300GB, but sometimes bacula thinks the tape
>> is full after writing about 230GB to it and requests a new tape.
>>
>> I have enabled hardware compression, but it still writes less than the
>> uncompressed capacity of the tape.
>>
>> Any clues on what might be causing this ?
>>
> SCSI errors. Check your dmesg output.
> 
> John


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