Re: [Bacula-users] Fun with an HP 1/8 autoloader SOLVED

2007-10-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:35 +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: Hi - I'm trying to determine a reasonable base before moving onto Bacula itself... have a look at this, does it make sense? HP /did/ sneak out a firmware update days before I wrote the original mail. I upgraded, and also changed to 'random

[Bacula-users] Fun with an HP 1/8 autoloader

2007-10-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi - I'm trying to determine a reasonable base before moving onto Bacula itself... have a look at this, does it make sense? The autoloader starts off empty. I use mtx to load a tape, and even this trivial operation returns an error, yet the tape has definately moved! The autoloader already has

Re: [Bacula-users] HP Storagework 1/8

2007-09-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 23:04 -0700, Andy Hughes wrote: Martin, I also setup a system with and HP Storageworks 1/8 using LTO2 in the past 3 weeks. The only change I had to make was to add a sleep statement or two in the mtx-changer script. Would you be kind enough to share your mtx-changer

Re: [Bacula-users] HP Storagework 1/8

2007-09-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 22:26 +0200, Peter Buschman wrote: Try the current version of mtx-changer from SVN. I fixed a bug a few weeks ago that was preventing the drive ready detection from working properly (hence, no wait loop after issuing a tape load command). A sleep statement in the

[Bacula-users] Iron Mountain offsite

2007-07-18 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi :) We're finally dipping our toe into the 'fun' world of tape backup. Initial tests with Bacula have proved very positive, but I have a small dilemma on which I'd appreciate input. We (as a company) want to send one full-backup tape per week to Iron Mountain for secure offsite storage. I (as