On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Hayden
Katzenellenbogen<hayden AT nextlevelinternet DOT com> wrote:
> When I run the btape test suite it completes no problem. I only get this
> bug when I run btape fill over multiple tapes. It happens when it
> switches tapes.
>
> If the current tape in the drive is not the tape from slot 1. When it
> loads the tape in slot 1 I get the error then it carries on no problem.
> Once it switches to the tape in slot 2 I get the same fatal error but it
> completes the fill test without issues. Also running unfill does not
> show the data being incorrect. If the tape in the drive is the tape from
> slot 1 I only receive the error when it switches to the tape in slot 2.
>
> Just before I put this project on hold I had made the decision to ignore
> the error and push on to see if it was just a btape issue.
>
> Good to know that I am no longer alone.
>
> H
If the SD encounters a fatal error while writing a backup to tape, it
will mark that backup as failed and you will not be able to restore
from it even though the data is there (up through the end of the
tape).
I have a similar issue that I've not devoted the time to tracking
down, where Bacula logs the error:
08-Jun 16:11 bufc1-sd JobId 3871: Fatal error: Unable to write EOF.
ERR=dev.c:1669 ioctl MTWEOF error on "124T-Drive" (/dev/nrst0).
ERR=Input/output error.
08-Jun 16:12 bufc1-sd JobId 3871: Error: Error writing final EOF to
tape. This Volume may not be readable.
dev.c:1669 ioctl MTWEOF error on "124T-Drive" (/dev/nrst0).
ERR=Input/output error.
08-Jun 16:12 bufc1-sd JobId 3871: Fatal error: spool.c:294 Fatal
append error on device "124T-Drive" (/dev/nrst0): ERR=dev.c:1669 ioctl
MTWEOF error on "124T-Drive" (/dev/nrst0). ERR=Input/output error.
This only happens when EOFing a tape. This was reported by btape on a
multi-tape fill test as well, but the data was read back without
error. For now, I just rerun the backup(s) that got jacked (I only do
tape backups once a week).
-HKS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Nordin [mailto:Lars_Nordin AT mcafee DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:03 AM
> To: Hayden Katzenellenbogen
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Btape fill test fatal error WEOF
>
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:03:43 Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote:
>> Lars,
>>
>> First off I found the first similarity. I installed Ubuntu 8.04LTS and
> I
>> am having the same issue. I never had a working installation before so
>> not ground for comparison.
>>
>> If you are not too far down the rabbit hole maybe you could try
> another
>> flavor of Linux before putting too much time into this issue. This
> could
>> be something as simple as Ubuntu being the issue.
>
> It seems that we are not alone and it is not just Ubuntu.
>
> I submitted a Mantis ticket for the btape bug but just for the fact that
> btape
> reports a fatal error but still says that the test passed at the end -
> this is
> a bug with btape.
> I figured I would ask if there other parameters to change and try that
> before
> filing a bug for btape fatal error itself.
> Well, some one has already added a note to my report and he is using
> Oracle's
> RHEL clone and a different tape drive.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (0004283) jbroughton (reporter) - 2009-06-10 18:27
> http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1309#c4283
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Verified by doing the following:
> A) rewind tape, weof, then ran btape fill and got:
> 10-Jun 11:19 btape: Fatal Error at dev.c:1705 because:
> dev.c:1704 Attempt to WEOF on non-appendable Volume
> B) Just in case, I rewound the tape again, weof, then created a volume
> on
> the tape from bconsole, and ran the btape fill, and recieved the same
> error
> message.
>
> Running Bacula 3.0.1 on Oracle Unbreakable Linux 5.2. Tape is a DDS-4.
>
>
>> Also I am not 100% positive yet if this WEOF is actually a problem. Or
>> just an erroneous error message.
>>
>> H
>
>
>
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