Hello,
Vtape is used only for test purpose, and the maximum size is defined at the
compilation time (see vtape.h).
I suggest you to avoid backuping your critical data on vtape device...
Bye
Shad L. Lords wrote:
>
> Is there a size limit to a vtape device? I've tries specifying tape sizes
> of 25G but the tapes end up only being about 20G in size. I'm also
> getting
> error trying to write to the end of the vtape device beyond this ~20G
> size.
> This is what the error looks like:
>
> 09-May 00:59 server.lordsfam.net JobId 48: Wrote label to prelabeled
> Volume
> "Monthly-0006" on device "Drive-1" (/var/spool/bacula/drive1)
> 09-May 00:59 server.lordsfam.net JobId 48: New volume "Monthly-0006"
> mounted on device "Drive-1" (/var/spool/bacula/drive1) at 09-May-2009
> 00:59.
> 09-May 01:43 server.lordsfam.net JobId 48: End of Volume "Monthly-0006" at
> 19:16300 on device "Drive-1" (/var/spool/bacula/drive1). Write of 64512
> bytes got -1.
> 09-May 01:43 server.lordsfam.net JobId 48: Error: Error writing final EOF
> to tape. This Volume may not be readable.
> dev.c:1723 ioctl MTWEOF error on "Drive-1" (/var/spool/bacula/drive1).
> ERR=No space left on device.
> 09-May 01:43 server.lordsfam.net JobId 48: End of medium on Volume
> "Monthly-0006" Bytes=21,452,562,432 Blocks=332,535 at 09-May-2009 01:43.
>
> On a different system, configured almost the same, I get the same error
> with the exact same Bytes written out.
>
> If the limit of the vtape device is 21,452,562,432 then I feel this should
> be documented. This number is just less then 20G (21,474,836,480) by just
> less then 20M. So I believe even if you specify a Max Volume Bytes of 20G
> you will still get the above error.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Shad
>
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