On 25/09/08 10:10, Sebastian Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mi 24.09.2008 20:52 schrieb Steve Garcia <sgarcia AT bak.rr DOT com>:
> 
>> Is there a procedure for shutting bacula down cleanly? In the last two
>> months, I've had to shut down the bacula server twice, once for a
>> scheduled power outage, and once due to a kernel upgrade.
>>
>> Both times I've ended up with "damaged" tape volumes, no longer able
>> to
>> append.
>>
>> "Bad response to Append Data command.  Wanted 3000 OK data, got 3903
>> Error append data"
>>
>> Now one additional issue is that when the server is rebooted, the
>> changer device seems to change.  I've now written a UDEV rule that I
>> hope will resolve this. In any case, I'm *pretty* sure that this is an
>> unrelated problem, but I could be wrong.
>>
> Release any tape befor shutding down bacula. That should prevent you for
> damaged tapes.

Can't bacula gracefully release tape volumes at shutdowns? It may very well be
that bacula doesn't but isn't it possible?

-- 
Erik.

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