-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jérôme Warnier wrote: > I used to do backups with tar and cpio, and used to use non-rewinding > tape device drivers, but for such a system as Bacula, I did not know if
Generally, software prefers to 'do it yourself' and thus the non-rewinding nodes. > this was still applicable or if Bacula didn't care internally. > I will switch to non-rewind and see what happens. If you read the Bacula tape testing chapter in the manual it states: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#_ChapterStart27 Specifying a Device Name For a Tape [...] When specifying a tape device, it is preferable that the "non-rewind" variant of the device file name be given. Greetings, Michel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFEfqur2Vs+MkscAyURAiJGAKCqvxeLW9eEs8deORCHdJlhf4S2tACghDkv +XqGIf5djRMZrZbwKwJMIGE= =vj9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
