Re: [Bacula-users] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

[Dan L. <da...@la...>]

 On 25 Feb 2007 at 3:33, Florian Heigl wrote:

> Just a silent heads up, if I may...

Umm, how is this silent?  ;)

> I never noticed bacula didn't track media errors, but this *is* a missing
> feature - the backup tool is expected to have error counters for tape devices
> and media, both will fail lots once things scale up as they're just parts that
> wear off over time and one needs an indicator for replacing things on time.
> 
> usually a tape should be blocked from being recycled after a certain point
> and a tape drive should be disabled for intervention.

Sounds like you want to get this onto the projects page,and ready for 
the next vote.

Or someone could just do the work.  If this is to be done, it must be 
modular: not every OS will collect the errors the same way.  It may 
even differ from device to device. 

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