> 
> 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...
> 

Actually even after restarting bacula-sd, it happened again. I will run
some more extensive tests on the hardware.

James

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