Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error

2011-01-28 03:25:12
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
From: Arunav Mandal <dibun AT hotmail DOT com>
To: <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:21:37 +0100

 
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:05:33 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
> From: drescherjm AT gmail DOT com
> To: dibun AT hotmail DOT com
> CC: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Arunav Mandal <dibun AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:39:22 -0500
> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
> >> From: drescherjm AT gmail DOT com
> >> To: dibun AT hotmail DOT com
> >> CC: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> >>
> >> > I purged and recycled the first tape which was successfull last week
> >> > then
> >> > again the same problem with the first tape. That means the media is
> >> > fine.
> >> > Now I don't know where to look for.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Are there any tape drive or kernel errors in your dmesg?
> >>
> >> John
> >
> >
> > Yes it is given below
> >
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel: st0: <<DEFERRED>>: sense key: Medium
> > Error
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel:     Add. Sense: Write error
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel:
> > Jan 27 06:14:45 pentagram-new kernel: Info fld=0xfc00
> >
>
> I am sorry I missed that in your previous email..
>
> No other messages that look suspicious around the time of failure?
> Have you cleaned the drive with a cleaning tape recently or is this a
> brand new unit?
>
> John

I tried the fill command from btape and I got this error
 
Wrote block=17160000, file,blk=277,47171 VolBytes=1,107,025,855,488 rate=51.60 MB/s
Wrote block=17165000, file,blk=277,52171 VolBytes=1,107,348,415,488 rate=51.61 MB/s
Wrote block=17170000, file,blk=277,57171 VolBytes=1,107,670,975,488 rate=51.62 MB/s
28-Jan 06:13 btape JobId 0: End of Volume "TestVolume1" at 278:1 on device "LTO-5" (/etc/bacula/DEVICES/LTO5). Write of 64512 bytes got -1.
28-Jan 06:13 btape JobId 0: Re-read of last block succeeded.
btape: btape.c:2702 Last block at: 277:62003 this_dev_block_num=1
btape: btape.c:2737 End of tape 278:0. Volume Bytes=1,107,982,761,984. Write rate = 51.59 MB/s
btape: btape.c:2311 Wrote 1000 blocks on second tape. Done.
Done writing 0 records ...
btape: btape.c:2380 Wrote state file last_block_num1=62003 last_block_num2=0
btape: btape.c:2395
06:13:41 Done filling tape at 278:0. Now beginning re-read of tape ...
btape: btape.c:2476 Enter do_unfill
28-Jan 06:14 btape JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "TestVolume1" on device "LTO-5" (/etc/bacula/DEVICES/LTO5).
Rewinding.
Reading the first 10000 records from 0:0.
10000 records read now at 1:5084
Reposition from 1:5084 to 277:62003
Reading block 62003.
Error reading block: ERR=block.c:1015 Read zero bytes at 277:0 on device "LTO-5" (/etc/bacula/DEVICES/LTO5).
btape: btape.c:2403 do_unfill failed.

and the same time I got
 
Jan 28 03:20:23 pentagram-new kernel: st0: <<DEFERRED>>: sense key: Medium Error
Jan 28 03:20:23 pentagram-new kernel:     Add. Sense: Write error
Jan 28 03:20:23 pentagram-new kernel:
Jan 28 03:20:23 pentagram-new kernel: Info fld=0xfc00

Is that the tape drive gone bad or something else?
 
Arunav.
 
 
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