On Jul 30, 2008, at 5:37 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Martijn de Munnik
> <martijn AT youngguns DOT nl> wrote:
>> Does anybody have a working storage daemon config for Solaris? I get
>> this error:
>>
>>
>> 24-Jul 05:37 chet-sd: Home_Directories_Job_Chet.2008-07-24_00.05.00
>> Error:
>> block.c:569 Write error at 156:4762 on device "Exabyte VXA-2 Drive"
>> (/dev/rmt/0cbn). ERR=I/O error. 24-Jul 05:37 chet-sd:
>> Home_Directories_Job_Chet.2008-07-24_00.05.00 Error: Error writing
>> final
>> EOF to tape. This Volume may not be readable. dev.c:1687 ioctl MTWEOF
>> error
>> on "Exabyte VXA-2 Drive" (/dev/rmt/0cbn). ERR=I/O error. 24-Jul 05:37
>> chet-sd: End of medium on Volume "A0000003" Bytes=75,388,465,152
>> Blocks=1,168,595 at 24-Jul-2008 05:37.
>>
>> Besides this error
> The error may be normal.
Oke, but isn't it confusing?
>
>
>> I expect to fit about 160GB on a tape instead of
>> 80GB.
>> What is wrong in my config? Parts of bacula-sd.conf;
>>
>
> Do you have software/gzip compression on in the fileset? Or is the
> data only compressed files (jpeg, mpeg, zip, gzip ...)? If either of
> these are true then that is probably all you will fit on the tape. You
> can not compress the data 2 times so expect to get only the native
> size written to the tape.
There are some compressed files in the backup sets but also a lot of
text files (mail, html, config files etc). I think the c in /dev/rmt/
0cbn means compression (hardware compression on the tape) but I'm not
sure. So I expect at least 80GB to fit on one tape.
>
>
> John
>
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