Zitat von Sven Tegethoff <tegethoff AT udobaer DOT de>:
>> * This means that I've 4 volumes damaged? I tried this night with a
>> new volume and the backup finished correctly.
>
> All the logs tell us is that the tape drive could not write to the tape
> - without further investigation, it's impossible to say whether the
> tapes are at fault, the tape drive is becoming unreliable, or if there's
> something wonky with your controller or cabling.
>
>> * why bacula doesn't sent me a mail with that error?
>
> From a logical point of view: Because the director only sends mails at
> the END of a job, or when a job needs intervention. The write error did
> not terminate the job, nor did it require intervention - failing tapes
> are not uncommon, so the strategy is to just continue on the next tape.
> Ideally, you always have an extra volume in the scratch pool as a spare,
> and the situation gets resolved automatically, even when it happens at
> 3am without any human presense. So the behaviour makes sense in a way.
>
> That being said, I agree it would be very nice in some situations if
> there was a feature to receive extra email notifications for I/O-Errors
> instead of relying on the user to scan their daily logs for it.
You might have a look at the "Alert Command" in the SD configuration:
http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html#SECTION002430000000000000000
With this you should get tape errors reported after the job if your
drive is willing to tell.
Regards
Andreas
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