From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 22:42:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AAD316A41C for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 22:42:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E378F43D48 for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 22:42:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 30 May 2005 23:43:09 +0100 Message-ID: <429B975D.2060204@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:44:45 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damian Sobieralski References: <20050530173626.76963.qmail@web50407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050530173626.76963.qmail@web50407.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 May 2005 22:43:09.0287 (UTC) FILETIME=[F3E60770:01C56568] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape record bigger than supplied buffer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:42:32 -0000 Damian Sobieralski wrote: > I'm test piloting bacula on a FreeBSD 5.4-REL system. All seemed to >work well in monitored tests. So last night I set up a job to run at >night. When I came in this morning, all seemed to go well...the >backup happened but I noticed 3 messages on the console: > >(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): 65536-byte tape record bigger than supplied buffer >(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): 65536-byte tape record bigger than supplied buffer >(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): 65536-byte tape record bigger than supplied buffer > > The backup seemed to go okay as I restored several files off of that >tape with no problems. Realizing the console messages mean what it >does at face value, was any data lost(should i take this as a "warning" >or as an "error") ? > > I've never used bacula, but no one else is jumping in... 1) Try restoring the whole tape to either an empty partition, or if you don't have one of those, to /dev/null. /dev/null isn't conclusive proof, but I assume that if data weas dropped then there *should* be a failed checksum somewhere along the line. 2) See if you can't find some option to match the bacula record size to that of your tape drive. Dump, for example, has a -b option e.g. "-b 64" to set its record size. I'm puzzled by you only seeing three messages though. Why would three buffers be smaller and not the rest? --Alex