Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error

2011-01-27 17:40:56
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
From: Arunav Mandal <dibun AT hotmail DOT com>
To: <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:38:24 +0100

 
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:05:33 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
> From: drescherjm AT gmail DOT com
> To: dibun AT hotmail DOT com
> CC: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Arunav Mandal <dibun AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:39:22 -0500
> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
> >> From: drescherjm AT gmail DOT com
> >> To: dibun AT hotmail DOT com
> >> CC: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> >>
> >> > I purged and recycled the first tape which was successfull last week
> >> > then
> >> > again the same problem with the first tape. That means the media is
> >> > fine.
> >> > Now I don't know where to look for.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Are there any tape drive or kernel errors in your dmesg?
> >>
> >> John
> >
> >
> > Yes it is given below
> >
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel: st0: <<DEFERRED>>: sense key: Medium
> > Error
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel:     Add. Sense: Write error
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel:
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel: Info fld=0xfc00
> >
>
> I am sorry I missed that in your previous email..
>
> No other messages that look suspicious around the time of failure?
> Have you cleaned the drive with a cleaning tape recently or is this a
> brand new unit?
>
> John
 
When I ran tapeinfo I get this
 
[root@pentagram-new ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg2
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'HP      '
Product ID: 'Ultrium 5-SCSI  '
Revision: 'Y23U'
Attached Changer: No
SerialNumber: 'HU1039CREY'
TapeAlert[3]:   Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
TapeAlert[4]:        Media: Media Performance Degraded, Data Is At Risk.
TapeAlert[6]:Write Failure: Tape faulty or tape drive broken.
TapeAlert[20]:    Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
MinBlock:1
MaxBlock:16777215
SCSI ID: 0
SCSI LUN: 0
Ready: yes
BufferedMode: yes
Medium Type: Not Loaded
Density Code: 0x58
BlockSize: 0
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x1
DeCompType: 0x1

But when I run again the errors are gone. Why is that?
 
Arunav.

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