Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is using half size of lto2 tapes

thank you very much for the info!!
Best regards

On 7/6/10, C M Reinehr <cmr AT amsent DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue 06 July 2010 01:55:45 am Koldo Santisteban wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer John. Please, could you tell me detailed info about
>> differences between /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 ?? I don´t know anything about
>> this...
>>
>> Regrads!
>
> Koldo,
>
> This may help you get started:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devices.txt
>
> Scroll down to the section on SCSI Tape Devices.
>
> Cheers!
>
> cmr
>
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
>> wrote:
>> > 2010/7/5 Koldo Santisteban <ksantisteban AT gmail DOT com>:
>> > > Good morning
>> > >
>> > > I am using Bacula 5.0.2 on CentOS 5.4. We have 2 robotic libraries,
>> > > one
>> >
>> > HP
>> >
>> > > G2 autoloader and an Adic FastStor 2. Both are using HP Lto2 Drives.
>> > > On the HP library, all is working fine, tapes are marked as full when
>> > > 265
>> >
>> > Gb
>> >
>> > > are written on them , but the issue is on Adic, the tapes are marked
>> > > as
>> >
>> > full
>> >
>> > > when 110 Gb are written on them. I don´t know what can i modify on
>> > > bacula configuration in order to solve it.
>> >
>> > This is most likely not a configuration issue. However I see two
>> > unrelated problems in your configuration.
>> >
>> > " Action On Purge = Truncate" I believe is for disk pools.
>> >
>> > Also replace /dev/st0 with /dev/nst0. /dev/st0 can cause your tapes to
>> > be corrupted by being rewound without bacula knowing.
>> >
>> > > Before Bacula, i were using Backup Exec
>> > > and Adic was working fine with their tape corresponding capacity.
>> > >
>> > > This are (in my opinion, let me know please if further information is
>> > > required) the most important configurations:
>> >
>> > Bacula believes a tape is full if it hits any errors when writing.
>> > Check your dmesg output for scsi errors.
>> >
>> > John
>
>
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