On 25/09/08 22:34, Steve Garcia wrote:
> Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>>> 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?
>
> That's not the problem (or at least it doesn't seem like it is.) Neither
> of the times we have shut the server down has been during a backup.
> Bacula has been idle at the time of the shutdown.
>
> The problem is that the tape is still in the drive, and after the
> machine comes back up, it gives me an error any time bacula tries to
> access the tape drive.
Does this also happen if you unmount and remount the tape before bacula starts
using the tape? I have also had this sort of problem and believe it's because
bacula thinks the tape is positioned differently from where it actually is. I
have successfully changed the error tag to append in such situations.
--
Erik.
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