Hi there.
I have a very cool Bacula installation on gentoo, backuping on a dell
PV 124T with LTO5 tape.
Everything works ok... almost.
I have no problem backuping and restoring over several volume.
However i get trouble when come the time to recycle tape. Bacula try
to recycle tape, and that's ok with me. But when it tries, i don't
know what's happening but it seems it detroys the tape header (with
the volume name on it).
For instance, a tape name is flagged to be recycled. so far i can read
the tape header using btape /dev/nst0 and:
-- flag as recycle, but not tried yet --
*readlabel
btape: btape.c:528 Volume label read correctly.
Volume Label:
Id : Bacula 1.0 immortal
VerNo : 11
VolName : 000017L5
PrevVolName :
VolFile : 0
LabelType : VOL_LABEL
LabelSize : 164
PoolName : AllIncrementals
MediaType : LTO-5
PoolType : Backup
HostName : gozer
Date label written: 21-Mar-2011 01:29
This tape is FLAGGED, but has not been tried to be reused yet.
Now here is a tape that has been tried to be reuse:
-- flag as recycle and tried to be --
*readlabel
06-Dec 12:07 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:1002 Read error on fd=3 at
file:blk 0:0 on device "Batman" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
btape: btape.c:525 Volume has no label.
Volume Label:
Id : **error**VerNo : 0
VolName :
PrevVolName :
VolFile : 0
LabelType : Unknown 0
LabelSize : 0
PoolName :
MediaType :
PoolType :
HostName :
Date label written: -4712-01-01 at 00:00
*
Clearly, it seems that my bacula is erasing the label on the tape at
some point, and then is unable to reuse it.
What's wrong with me ?
So far, the only thing i've been able to do was to destroy the volume
completly in the database and create a new one with the same label, as
bacula just don't agree with relabeling a tape with a name which is
already in the DB. This is not really what i think about Automatic
recycling.
Please help me !
--
David Vandergucht
dav.vdg AT gmail DOT com
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