"Jari Fredriksson" <jarif AT iki DOT fi> writes:

> Got an error: the whole machine hang when the backup job was well over 2GB.
>
> Changed to Maximum Part Size 800M, which is apparently there for a reason.
>
> Next error. Job finished successfully [...]
>
> BUT. As it writes, it took one volume. Job wrote 2.939 GB total, but
> the
>
>       Last Volume Bytes:      428,300,953 (428.3 MB)
>
> This is wrong!

seems correct to me:

  2944849356 - 3*800*1024*1024 - 428300953 = -0.000034 GB

Last Volume Bytes is simply the amount of data which didn't fill a
complete Volume.

> And then the next job fails:
>
> 08-Nov 12:47 wellington-sd JobId 8968: Volume "DVDRW-002" previously written, 
> moving to end of data.
> 08-Nov 12:47 wellington-sd JobId 8968: Error: Bacula cannot write on DVD 
> Volume "DVDRW-002" because: The sizes do not match! Volume=2944849356 
> Catalog=428300953
> 08-Nov 12:47 wellington-sd JobId 8968: Marking Volume "DVDRW-002" in Error in 
> Catalog.
> 08-Nov 12:47 wellington-sd JobId 8968: Job 
> MOSQUITO_Backup.2008-11-08_11.25.05 waiting. Cannot find any appendable 
> volumes.
>
> ##
>
> It looks like the job 8967 wrote only the last Part to the database!
> All parts went to the DVD, but only the last part to the database.
>
> Strange.

what does list volumes say about DVDRW-002 ?

-- 
regards,          | Redpill  _
Kjetil T. Homme   | Linpro  (_)


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