On Friday 09 September 2005 17:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> --- Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 09 September 2005 15:00,
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > DVD writing in 1.37.38 is ready for testing and
> > > > should work. Nicolas has
> > > > cautioned that it is still beta, but I he has
> > > > removed all the bugs that were
> > > > causing problems in previous versions of 1.37.
> > >
> > > Good. I will try to do a test backup of my linux
> >
> > box
> >
> > > this weekend. I tried DVD backup with an earlier
> > > version of 1.37 and the backup failed after the
> >
> > first
> >
> > > volume saying that the media was read only.
> >
> > Well, you can only put one Volume per DVD.
>
> Thanks Kern,
> Sorry, I got my terms confused. I read in the docs
> that for dvd drives 800MB was the MaximumPartSize so
> after the first 800MB was written the backup failed.
Hopefully that problem will be solved. The MaximumPartSize simply causes
Bacula to "flush" the data from disk to DVD at that size rather than wait to
have enough data to fill an entire DVD.
> Here is my setup:
>
> #
> # A DVD device
> #
> Device {
> Name = "DVD-WRITER"
> Media Type = DVD
> Archive Device = /dev/dvd
> LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula
> label unlabeled media
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device
> opened, read it
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> MaximumPartSize = 800M;
> RequiresMount = yes;
> MountPoint = /mnt/dvd;
> MountCommand = "/bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m";
> UnmountCommand = "/bin/umount %m";
> SpoolDirectory = /tmp/backup;
> WritePartCommand = "/etc/bacula/dvd-writepart %n %a
> %v"
> FreeSpaceCommand = "/etc/bacula/dvd-freespace %a %n"
> }
>
> I read my log and it said my client version was
> 1.34.6. (Feeling a little embarrassed). Sorry for the
> error report... I thought I had 1.37.XX installed when
> I did that test on Aug 1, 2005. I just checked
> (remotely via bconsole in a ssh window) my current
> version and it is 1.37.36, so I will upgrade to the
> latest and try a backup sometime this weekend...
>
> Thanks again Kern.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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