On Saturday 02 July 2005 01:07, Richard White wrote:
> 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).
I'll let others provide solutions to your problems, but I suspect that if you
start sending specific error messages, you will get much better responses. If
you tell me: "it failed to rewind (or words to that effect)", I wouldn't be
able to help you. If on the other hand, you send Bacula's output, things
would most likely be different.
>
> 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 \ <=== typo here
> --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.
Well, either SuSE ES 9 or RH 9.1 should be fine, but since you have already
changed to RH 9, you should be aware that it is a bit old and probably will
not be supported by RH very long. Were I in your place, I would switch to
Fedora FC3 and apply their updates. I would not switch to FC4. FC3 is a very
stable recent system and should be supported at least a year, possibly 18
months.
>
> 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.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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