Re: Writes to tape stall indefinitely

Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:07:00 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 11/18/25 3:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> We are seeing a problem where sometimes any write from Bacula to an HP LTO-7 tape drive is stalled indefinitely.  To be 
> completely clear, the write operation does not fail with an error.  Rather, it simply never completes.  The tape drive was 
> purchased new and has been in use less than 6 months.  This typically occurs at the start of a backup job.   When we first 
> saw this problem it survived across reboots and power cycles.  We replaced the SAS HBA and were able to run several backup 
> jobs (aprox 600GB each), each to its own tape.  Today, a backup hung, waiting for a different tape.  That seemed to be 
> resolved by canceling the active jobs, purging the inserted tape and changing the status to recycle, and running the backup 
> jobs again.  However, the backup job has hung; bconsole reports zero bytes written.
> 
> Any suggestions on how I might get better insight than I have now?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 

Hello Ken,

A job log would be helpful, along with your pool configuration(s)

* ll joblog jobid=xxxx
* list pools
* list media

Followed by the actual pool configs.


Best regards,
Bill

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Bill Arlofski
[email protected]

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