FWIW Latest installment in the ongoing saga of Bacula on the Mason County (Washington) network.
For reasons that quite escape me, Bacula began having trouble with tape drives. The typical error when I would try to mount a tape on a drive that had previously had no problems at all was that it failed to rewind (or words to that effect). After thorough consideration (a minute and a half, at least), we decided to install a new OS. We had been running on SuSE ES 9. We installed RH 9.1. After some thrashing around, I have a working install in /bacula/bin, accomplished with this script: #!/bin/bash ./configure \ --enable-smartalloc \ --enable-gnome \ --enable-traymonito \ --sbindir=/bacula/bin \ --sysconfdir=/bacula/bin \ --with-pid-dir=/bacula/bin/working \ --with-subsysdir=/bacula/bin/working \ --with-working-dir=/bacula/bin/working \ --with-mysql With simple modifications of the previously working conf files, everything was smooth. Except it still occasionally can't mount a tape on the first try. It says the device is open but it can't identify the tape; try umounting and remounting the tape. So far, this has worked, even on the previously troublesome drives. Still haven't conquered the tape/drive spanning problem, but, hey, I'm having fun. Speaking of fun, as many know, this is a special weekend in this country. I will be spending tomorrow and the next day canoeing and camping with the Boy Scouts (two of whom call me "Dad"). If I make it back in one piece I will be all ready to hammer at Bacula some more. TFN, Richard "Ranchero Rick" White ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
