2011/1/20 Jeremiah D. Jester <jjest AT u.washington DOT edu>:
> I periodically get tape error messages via email and from the bacula log
> files.  Most of them look something like this…
>
> 19-Jan 08:59 bacula02-sd JobId 913: Error: block.c:1016 Read error on fd=8
> at file:blk 0:0 on device "Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
>
> 19-Jan 09:04 bacula02-sd JobId 913: Error: block.c:1016 Read error on fd=8
> at file:blk 0:0 on device "Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
>
> 19-Jan 09:09 bacula02-sd JobId 913: Error: block.c:1016 Read error on fd=8
> at file:blk 0:0 on device "Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
>
>
>
> Note: that there is no volume name in the logged line, same as with email.
>
>
>
> My question is… How do I find the volume/s that triggered these messages and
> second, how can I test to verify the tape is faulty or not?
>

Have you inserted new tapes lately? You will get this error for every
never written tape. The reason is the tape drive prevents you from
reading past where it has written and on never written tapes there is
nothing on the tape. Since bacula first reads a tape to identify it
you will get this error each time you insert a never written tape and
bacula looks at it.

John

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