> I've been doing some research on using the Exabyte Magnum 224 with > Bacula and seen your name come up a number of times in the mailing > lists.
Yes we have a magnum224 is a 2 drive LTO2 with 24 slots. > I was curious what your overall experience has been with this > setup? We are running Linux here with Bacula now and a single tape > drive with no problems, but I wasn't sure what issues might appear with > the Exabyte. Have you had to do a lot of modifications of Bacula and > MTX to get things working? No modifications to mtx. >Are things working ok for you? For the most things are working very well. We currently have 15TB of data on tapes right now with an estimated 12TB of that was recorded with the magnum. One problem is that I can not put a tape in the input / output slot and have bacula use it correctly. I believe this is a mtx problem but it is easy to avoid by manually importing the tape to a different slot via the controls on the autoloader. Also, In the past I have had a bacula related problem with the scheduler not handling 2 drives very efficiently, causing media to be removed from one drive to be put back in the other drive to run a job. This problem was fixed in the svn code (and now in bacula-2.2.8) a few months back so I have not experienced that in a long while. There is one other problem that comes up every once and a while. You must remember to have bacula unload the media from the drives before using the changer controls to move tapes or you can run into a problem where a tape can get ejected from the drive but the robot on the changer refuses to pick up the tape. When this happens you need to stop the bacula-sd and then issue mt -f /dev/nst0 load then you can use the changer controls. This may be a result of me having AlwaysOpen= yes in my config for the drives. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
