Erik P. Olsen wrote:

>>>>>> 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.
> 

I'm not sure.  When I shut the server down last time, it was just a
routine reboot, so I wasn't even thinking of potential bacula problems.
 It wasn't until I started getting emails about failed backups that I
looked at it.

-- 
Steve Garcia
sgarcia AT bak.rr DOT com
Ignorance killed the cat; Curiosity was framed.

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