Hi,

02.09.2008 14:37, Danz Aurora wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I've been using bacula for almost half a year, with HP Autoloader 1/8
> Utrium 3. The btape test are ok and shows no problems.
>
> However, every time after every finished job the tape drive will give an
> error:
>
> 20-Mar 05:30 mdserver2-sd JobId 114: Alert: TapeAlert[25]:Undefined.

According to the specs, TapeAlert 25 is a "Failure of one interface
port in a dual-port configuration, e.g. Fibrechannel"

> 01-Sep 23:13 mdserver2-sd JobId 76: Alert: TapeAlert[25]:Undefined.
>
> or
>
> 19-Mar 14:37 mdserver2-sd JobId 112: Alert: TapeAlert[32]:    Interface:
> Problem with SCSI interface between tape drive and initiator.

and 32 is "The drive has identified an interfacing fault"

It's time to check the cabling, connections and terminators...

Arno

> 22-Aug 12:22 mdserver2-sd JobId 47: Alert: TapeAlert[32]:    Interface:
> Problem with SCSI interface between tape drive and initiator.
>
> I choose to ignore the errors as i think its not a big deal as the job
> is completed, however i was wrong. The tapes are not fully filled to
> 400Gb, instead it is Full when its much lesser than that. Sometimes
> 99Gb, sometimes 1Gb, it just happens randomly.
>
> Sometimes on a bad day i will get :
>
> 23-Aug 23:05 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: Start Backup JobId 51, Job=BackupVideo0.2008-08-23_23.05.07
> 23-Aug 23:05 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: Using Device "Ultrium"
>
> *23-Aug 23:05 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 105:1 on device "Ultrium" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
> 23-Aug 23:05 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: Error: Backspace record at EOT failed. ERR=Input/output error*
>
> 23-Aug 23:05 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: End of medium on Volume "Full-0005" Bytes=100,147,267,584 Blocks=1,552,381 at 23-Aug-2008 23:05.
> 23-Aug 23:05 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 3, drive 0" command.
>
> 23-Aug 23:08 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: Recycled volume "Full-0007"
> 23-Aug 23:08 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
> 23-Aug 23:08 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
>
> 23-Aug 23:08 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" command.
> 23-Aug 23:09 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: 3305 Autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0", status is OK.
> 23-Aug 23:09 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: Recycled volume "Full-0007" on device "Ultrium" (/dev/nst0), all previous data lost.
>
> 23-Aug 23:09 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: New volume "Full-0007" mounted on device "Ultrium" (/dev/nst0) at 23-Aug-2008 23:09.
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: Job write elapsed time = 00:41:33, Transfer rate = 38.44 M bytes/second
>
> *23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-sd JobId 51: Alert: TapeAlert[25]:Undefined.*
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: Bacula mdserver2-dir 2.4.2 (26Jul08): 23-Aug-2008 23:50:42
>   Build OS:               i686-pc-linux-gnu debian 4.0
>
>   JobId:                  51
>   Job:                    BackupVideo0.2008-08-23_23.05.07
>   Backup Level:           Full
>   Client:                 "mdserver2-fd" 2.4.2 (26Jul08) i686-pc-linux-gnu,debian,4.0
>
>   FileSet:                "video0" 2008-08-08 23:05:00
>   Pool:                   "Full" (From Run FullPool override)
>   Storage:                "Ultrium" (From Job resource)
>   Scheduled time:         23-Aug-2008 23:05:00
>
>   Start time:             23-Aug-2008 23:05:02
>   End time:               23-Aug-2008 23:50:42
>   Elapsed time:           45 mins 40 secs
>   Priority:               10
>   FD Files Written:       47,816
>   SD Files Written:       47,816
>
>   FD Bytes Written:       95,845,214,576 (95.84 GB)
>   SD Bytes Written:       95,853,213,397 (95.85 GB)
>   Rate:                   34980.0 KB/s
>   Software Compression:   None
>   VSS:                    no
>   Storage Encryption:     no
>
>   Volume name(s):         Full-0005|Full-0007
>   Volume Session Id:      5
>   Volume Session Time:    1219378832
>   Last Volume Bytes:      95,925,666,816 (95.92 GB)
>   Non-fatal FD errors:    0
>   SD Errors:              0
>
>   FD termination status:  OK
>   SD termination status:  OK
>   Termination:            Backup OK
>
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: Begin pruning Jobs.
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: No Jobs found to prune.
>
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: Begin pruning Files.
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: No Files found to prune.
> 23-Aug 23:50 mdserver2-dir JobId 51: End auto prune.
>
>
> Can someone advise me what is happening?
>
>

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