I'm seeing "st0: Error 10000 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x1)" messages from "dmesg" command and checking the /var/log/messages file, I see the same. I was able to do "mt" commands a couple of hours ago, failed a few minutes ago and it is working again right now. Maybe I should restart the whole tape changer later on.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Win Htin <win.htin AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I received a "Backup Fatal Error" report from one of my prod backups last
> evening. After going through the report, I noticed the initial volume that
> was being used went in Error. Bacula loaded a new volume from scratch pool,
> continued with the backups and after writing less than 18GB of data, marked
> the new volume with "Full" status. This went on with 2 more new volumes with
> very little data actually written to each volume. Any idea what happened?
>

There is a problem communicating with the tape drive. This can be bad
hardware or a bad scsi driver. First take a look at your dmesg


John

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