> > Could there be any other reason you may think of (possibly outside of
> > bacula) that would cause a drive to think it's written more than it has,
> > or for the job to start at the wrong point on the tape?
> 
> LTO media does not work that way. To write from beginning to end it
> does multiple passes of the entire tape.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Tape_layout
> 
> John

Thanks for the info. Another question: the text on wikipedia states
"LTO-3 and LTO-4 use a similar format with 1,616,940-byte blocks" - is
this something I would need to add as a directive (in trying to resolve
my current issue), or would Bacula set this appropriately when I set
media type to LTO-3 in the SD configuration?

I appreciate the assistance so far.


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