>> For patches. Tell me about the plan, if you know it. >> >> When recycling a DVD media Bacula writes a 0 bytes >> length label file, and documents that it is how it >> should be. When mounting a DVD media Bacula tries to >> read the label file, and complains if it is 0 bytes and >> has no data. >> > > Is that the only problem?
No it is not. Its the bug #0001186, the main problem is bug #0001184 > > I can think of a workaround for that. I mean delete the > recycled media > from bacula. Then blank the media and use it as new media. > > John It was mentioned as an example how hard it is to write patches. I have worked on the main problem, but did nothing to the mentioned problem as a patch, as there must be a plan. There must be a reason a developer has decided to write a zero-length file when recycling. What is that reason? The mount function does not appreciate that, but should I patch that then? Which way I go? Indeed that one is not that hard, but its not the case I was working with. The bastard is #0001184, why does it not update the last Part to the Catalog? As I do not work (either) full time with bacula, that remains a mystery to me. #0001184 says 2.4.x does not update the last part to catalog. 2.2.8 has totally different problems, and I have not currently anything to say publicly about it (I removed it from disk). I'm currently downloading everything with svn and will see what happens. I understand that DVD backup is not important to corporations. But it is a feature in Bacula, and I went that route as my DDS-drive died I wanted a new solution without a Lottery win. DVD+RW media is not very cheap, I could have bought a hard disk with much more capacity then the discs provide, but... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users