HI there, do you have the "AutomaticMount = yes;" directive set in the device resource (for your tape drive) in your bacula-sd.conf file?
Fred > Hi, > > I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to > backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and storage > daemon on a Debian (sarge) machine which has a scsi DLT tape drive > attached to it. The version of bacula is 1.36.2. It looks promising, > except for one annoying, and in my view, serious problem: > > The tape drive allows me to eject the tape by pressing an 'unload' > button. However, afterwards, when I re-insert the tape, bacula cannot read > it, so all the backup data is useless. (Of course, if I have 'unmounted' > the tape from within bconsole before ejecting, bacula has no problem > accessing the data afterwards.) The question is, is there any way to make > bacula accept the tape if the tape was accidientally, 'improperly' > ejected? > > I have browsed the mailing list archive and seen the advice that I could > use AlwaysOpen = no and OfflineOnUnmount = yes to guarantee that > bacula unmounts the tape after each backup. But the advice comes with > the warning that for each backup bacula will be rewinding and > re-positioning the tape consuming a lot of time, so leaving the default > behaviour is really preferred. > > If someone knows that this problem does not exist in newer versions of > bacula, I could upgrade to the version (1.38.11) in the Debian testing > distribution. > > I would greatly appreciate any help regarding this. Thanks. > > - Sarath > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
