Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] re store failed - Medium Error?

2008-07-18 15:30:16
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] re store failed - Medium Error?
From: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:29:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:05:18 -0700, ebollengier wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Your drive can be dirty, are you using smartctl to retrieve drive errors
> ? Cleaning tape it can help you, but i don't think that you will be able
> to re-read your
> tape.
> 
> You can tell to bacula to skip this media by editing the bsr file, but i
> think that you won't be able
> to restore files that are beyong the error. Maybe you can test by using
> "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 15" and
> see if it's work. (error was on file 14)


thanks, smartctl showd that drive needed cleaning. cleaned and fired up 
bls - the first time it reported an read error. the second time not... 

"mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 15" didn't gave me an error message and also no 
kernel error messages.

so maybe there is some hope left...

- Thomas



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