Martin,
The output I sent you is the bacula log file. Am I missing something?
JJ

Jeremiah Jester
Informatics Specialist
Microbiology - Katze Lab
206-732-6185


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin AT lispworks DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 3:53 AM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] help w/ tape errors

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:34:09 -0800, Jeremiah D Jester said:
> 
> 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?

You'll have to look in Bacula's log file and compare the times to see what was 
running.

Given that it says "file:blk 0:0" (i.e. start of tape), it is very likely that 
these were uninitialized tapes.

__Martin

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