Hello,
I am sorry to be slow in responding, but I don't have much choice these days.
I see you are probably the reporter of the bug on this same subject.
I regret, but currently we only support the FD on Win32. It turns out that
the Dir and the SD appear to work reasonably well. However, I think it is
*very* unlikely that anything using DVD on Windows will work because as far
as I know the tools that Bacula uses to read/write the DVD have not been
ported to Win32, so you are pretty much out of luck.
In any case, I would strongly recommend against using DVD as it is a very
unreliable medium.
If you must use it, then I suggest writing to disk volumes and limiting their
size to fit on a DVD, and when the Volume is full, "manually" write it to a
DVD, and if you later want to restore from it, then copy it back onto the
disk. It is not a very automatic way of working, but it is the best we can
offer at the moment.
As you will learn in the next few days, we have created a company that will
provide professional support and development services to Bacula users, so I
hope that in the future through corporate development projects, we will be
able to fund a Windows developer to fix some of the missing functionality on
Windows.
Best regards,
Kern
On Thursday 18 September 2008 21:46:11 Dr. Marco Schaerfke wrote:
> I try to use the Windows version of bls.exe for reading DVDs. The DVDs
> was created with a Linux Bacula installation.
> My goal is it to share archive DVDs . Unfortunately I was not
> successful. Windows creates a error report (Dr, Watson).
> Does the windows version of bls the reading of "Linux" DVDs ? Are there
> any experiences with bls on Windows and DVDs ?
>
> Command line: bls.exe -V "DVD-2008-1" "DVD Writer"
> May be my settings are wrong. Here my windows bacula-sd.conf
>
> Device {
> Name = "DVD Writer"
> Media Type = DVD
> Device Type = DVD
> Archive Device = "E:/"
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = Yes;
> MaximumPartSize = 800M;
> RequiresMount = no;
> # MountPoint = "E:\\"
> MountCommand = "echo Hallo";
> UnmountCommand = "echo Hallo";
> # SpoolDirectory = c:\\;
> WritePartCommand = "C://Programme//Bacula//bin//dvd-handler.cmd %a
> write %e %v"
> FreeSpaceCommand = "C://Programme//Bacula//bin//dvd-handler.cmd %a free"
> }
>
> Thanks for helps or comments.
>
> Marco
>
>
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