On 12/06/2011 11:35 AM, David Vandergucht wrote:
> 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 !
>
>
Are you using truncate after purge ?
http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_1.html#SECTION00910000000000000000
Could explain what you see on your tape
Truncate is usefull (if any) for File
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