I've been using bacula-sd and bacula-dir under windows for a bit and so
far it's worked well except for two occasions. Just now, and maybe a
week ago, bacula decided that it had reached the end of tape (I think
there was an error there). This happened again shortly after, but the
problem appeared to go away after restarting bacula-sd. When it happened
a week ago, I put it down to a problem with Windows updates which were
installing or had just finished installing when the backup job was
running.

So to restate what I just said:
. backup-sd says end of tape due to write error (about 83G into the job)
. I cancel the job, purge the volume, and restart using the same volume
. bacula-sd does the same again, but not at the same point
. I cancel the job, purge the volume, restart bacula-sd, and restart the
job using the same volume again
. the backup works fine, and subsequent backups worked fine for a week
or so.

I'm using bacula 3.0.1 (x64 version of bacula-fd, i386 version of
everything else). The drive is a HP LTO3 drive (400/800G capacity). The
normal job size is about 220G.

Windows reports no errors in the logs (eg no scsi errors). I have run HP
L&TT tools and it declares that everything is fine, although I haven't
run it since the most recent failure.

Is anyone else using bacula-sd under windows and can tell me what their
experience is? Given the "unsupported" disclaimer for -sd and -dir under
windows, I'm not ruling out a bug in -sd...

Thanks

James



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