>>>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:55:09 +0200 (CEST), Sebastian Lehmann said:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am Do 25.09.2008 11:16 schrieb Erik P. Olsen <epodata AT gmail DOT com>:
>
> > 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?
> >
> I believe not,
It should be clean if you shut down while bacula is idle.
If you shut down during a backup, then the catalog might not be updated to
match the tape, which will cause a mismatch next time the tape is used. Is
that the situation you are seeing?
__Martin
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