On Thursday 21 September 2006 12:08 pm, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: > 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:
As a perhaps poor analogy, think of a bacula mounted medium as a mounted filesystem. You want to manually unmount a filesystem before taking it down. It isn't that the mount isn't recoverable if it gets out of sync, but things work more cleanly that way. >From what I've seen over the past few weeks, bacula is an excellent choice for multi-system backup. It does take some time to learn to admin it, but that is part of why it is a good choice. > 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? In your described case it might well be as simple as mounting the drive with bconsole if you manually eject/reinsert it. Kern has emphasized to me that in the 1.39.+ releases it will be more important than ever to only make media changes with bconsole. With an autochanger that (nominally) locks closed, I find it easy enough to use bconsole to manage media in the drives; that way I can manage it all running gconsole from my linux desktop. -- -- Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
