>>>>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:48:39 -0300, Rodrigo Ferraz said:
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> We have been facing this issue for a long time, so any help or insight will 
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Bacula seem to be working just fine, with the exception of these two 
> situations below:
> 
> 1) Bacula cannot reposition the tape and continue using it after it is 
> unmounted. If the tape stays mounted for the whole week, for example, all 
> daily backups work fine.
> 2) Restore jobs work ok, but always with the "ERR=Input/output" error (log 
> below)

Do the commands below work without errors when a Bacula tape is in the drive?
(stop the bacula-sd first)

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 32768
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst0 eod



> I'm mentioning these situations because they are certainly related to how 
> bacula-sd is configured. There must be something wrong with our 
> bacula-sd.conf file, but I can assure you that we are using exactly as 
> suggested by btape test. Here it is:
> 
> Device {
>   Name = LTO-3
>   Drive Index = 0
>   Autochanger = no
>   Archive Device = /dev/nst0
>   Maximum Changer Wait = 3d
>   AutomaticMount = yes
>   AlwaysOpen = yes
>   Media Type = LTO-3
>   RemovableMedia = yes
>   Offline On Unmount = no
>   Spool Directory = /var/lib/bacula/spool
>   Maximum Spool Size = 35gb
>   RandomAccess = no
>   LabelMedia = yes
>   #Hardware End of Medium = No
>   #Fast Forward Space File = No
>   Two EOF = no
>   BSF at EOM = no
> }
> 
> And here is the restore job log showing the problem:
> 
> 23-Aug 10:14 br01 JobId 1396: Start Restore Job 
> RestoreFiles.2011-08-23_10.14.27_36
> 23-Aug 10:14 br01 JobId 1396: Using Device "LTO-3"
> 23-Aug 10:14 br01 JobId 1396: Ready to read from volume "M082011" on device 
> "LTO-3" (/dev/nst0).
> 23-Aug 10:14 br01 JobId 1396: Forward spacing Volume "M082011" to file:block 
> 289:0.
> -->23-Aug 10:16 br01 JobId 1396: Error: block.c:1002 Read error on fd=5 at 
> file:blk 290:0 on device "LTO-3" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
> 23-Aug 10:16 br01 JobId 1396: End of Volume at file 290 on device "LTO-3" 
> (/dev/nst0), Volume "M082011"
> 23-Aug 10:16 br01 JobId 1396: End of all volumes.

Is file 290 the expected end of this backup (look in the jobmedia for the
original jobid).

__Martin

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