Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 10:44:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:41:11 +0100
>>>>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:04:50 -0600, James Woodward said:
> 
> Hello Martin,
> 
> It's a Dell L500 and does not auto rewind. We have another 5 identical ones
> in production but they are running an older version of Bacula. This seems to
> be new to us with Bacula 5.0.3.

It's true, "Expected 0, got 20" sounds like the opposite problem.

Which operating system is running on the SD and is that the same in
production?

__Martin


> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On 2011-07-07, at 4:28 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:29:46 -0600, James Woodward said:
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I've tried searching around a bit but I can't seem to find an answer as to
> >> what might cause this problem. I have qutie a few tapes that have been
> >> marked in error due to Invalid Tape position. I've listed the Invalid tape
> >> position errors as well as detail about one of the affected volumes. Has
> >> anyone else encountered this or have any idea's as to why it might be
> >> happening? For the life of me I can't figure out what the Expected 0 
> >> portion
> >> refers to. I thought it might refer to volfiles but those numbers don't
> >> always match either.
> >> ...
> >> Invalid Tape Position Errors
> >> # grep -i "invalid tape position" log
> >> 11-Mar 18:01 esqb6-sd JobId 196: Error: Invalid tape position on volume 
> >> "090137" on device "Drive-2" (/dev/sa2). Expected 0, got 20
> > 
> > Is /dev/sa2 an auto-rewinding device?  Bacula must use a no-rewinding device
> > (normally called /dev/nsa2 on BSD).
> > 
> > __Martin
> > 
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