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
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Kern, is it possible to insert some sanity checks when starting jobs to
>> ensure the tape is positioned where bacula thinks it should be?
>
> It is possible on most systems to do an ioctl(). I'm considering it, but the
> problem is that it is not alway
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
>
> > How about if I had not started a new
> > backup after re-inserting the tape, yet?
>
> You would probably be ok.
>
> > Will an unmount/mount before
> > running any jobs make bacula accept the tape?
>
>
On Monday 25 September 2006 15:37, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
>
> > How about if I had not started a new
> > backup after re-inserting the tape, yet?
>
> You would probably be ok.
>
> > Will an unmount/mount before
> > running any jobs make bacula accept t
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
> How about if I had not started a new
> backup after re-inserting the tape, yet?
You would probably be ok.
> Will an unmount/mount before
> running any jobs make bacula accept the tape?
Probably.
The safest action is to NEVER insert a new tape be
On Friday 22 September 2006 23:53, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, you are out of luck. You did the unmount/mount *after* you
> > ejected the tape, reloaded it in the drive, and started another job, which
> > started writing on the *b
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Unfortunately, you are out of luck. You did the unmount/mount *after* you
> ejected the tape, reloaded it in the drive, and started another job, which
> started writing on the *beginning* of the tape rather than appending to it.
>
> The simplest sol
Unfortunately, you are out of luck. You did the unmount/mount *after* you
ejected the tape, reloaded it in the drive, and started another job, which
started writing on the *beginning* of the tape rather than appending to it.
The simplest solution is to stop and restart the SD (probably not nec
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What I do is AlwaysOpen = no, AutomaticMount = yes. I think this does
what you're looking for.
Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
> To demonstrate the problem with manual ejection of tape, this is what
> I did:
>
> - start with a fresh database
> - start
To demonstrate the problem with manual ejection of tape, this is what
I did:
- start with a fresh database
- start bconsole
- add a volume to the Default pool
- run two backup jobs
- quit bconsole
- * manually eject tape without unmounting
- * re-insert tape
- start bconsole
- wi
On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
> 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
> atta
On Thursday 21 September 2006 01:01 pm, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote:
> > In your described case it might well be as simple as mounting the drive
> > with bconsole if you manually eject/reinsert it.
>
> Thank you all you nice people offering help. This is
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote:
> 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 (sa
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
On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:35, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
>
> > On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to
> > > backup our department's servers.
Yes, I have "AutomaticMount = yes;". In fact, this is the device
definition in bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = DLT
Media Type = DLT
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
>
> > 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)
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
On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote:
> 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.
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
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