On Tuesday 25 October 2005 13:18, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 21.10.2005 18:49, J. Carl Houghton wrote:
>
> sourceforge holds mail again? Anyway, I've just got a bunch of mail
> dated 21 October...
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Im hoping that Im not asking a very silly question but Im sure the answer
> > is going to be obvious and Im just working on this too late at night
> > without a clear head.
>
> At least you should have found some sleep by now :-)
>
> > Im quite new to bacula and am having problems with the configuration.
> >
> > I am trying to use the btape utility to test out my out-of-the-box
> > FileStorage configuration within bacula-sd.conf.
> > Device {
> > Name = FileStorage
> > Media Type = File
> > Archive Device = /tmp
> > LabelMedia = yes
> > Random Access = yes
> > AutomaticMount = yes
> > RemovableMedia = no
> > AlwaysOpen = no
> > }
> >
> > when I run btape FileStorage I get the following error message....
> >
> > btape FileStorage
> > Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
> > btape: butil.c 258 Using device: "FileStorage" for writing.
> > 22-Oct 02:16 btape: Fatal error at btape.c:329 because:
> > dev open failed: Could not open file device /tmp. No Volume name given.
>
> Simple answer: ignore btape tests for file storage - as far as I know,
> that always works, and you don't have to configure anything concerning
> hardware capabilities.
>
> Long answer: File a bug report at bugs.bacula.org and wait :-) for it to
> be fixed. In the meantime, just do your backups without running btape
> tests before.
>
> (Kern: Should that be fixed, or mentioned in the manual, or perhaps even
> btape should print a message like "There's no need to run btape on file
> devices. And it doesn't work anyway."?)
btape is named "tape" for exactly the reason is that it tests tapes. This is
also documented in the manual.
I don't consider it a bug if it doesn't work on disk storage.
>
> > I have checked and double checked the amount of available disk and
> > permissions on /tmp and all looks good.
> >
> > Out of desperation I started up the bacula server and kicked off bconsole
> > to run status on media but that presents the error:
> > Archive "FileStorage" is not open or does not exist.
>
> That's normal and is because Bacula only opens a disk based device when
> it really needs it.
>
> > I have also tried changing the config to point to other random
> > directories with no success.
> > I have pointed the config at a DDS-4 drive that I have and btape does
> > work perfectly with that but I do want to dump backup data to disk as
> > well as tape.
> >
> > Ive compiled 1.36.3 with --prefix=/usr/local/bacula --with-mysql on a
> > redhat 9 box with a 2.4.20 kernel. It was the only box I had left with
> > enough power cables left to hook up the internal DDS drive.
> >
> > I tried to compile 1.36.2 instead but experienced the same problems. I
> > have been through the ./configure options but cant really see anything
> > that would ring a bell.
> >
> > Google has turned up nothing useful except for someones reference to
> > writing to DVDs which doesnt seem quite relevant and I couldnt find
> > anything in this lists archives.
> >
> > Can someone please help?
>
> Test your tape device, and don't run btape on file devices and
> everything should work.
>
> Arno
>
> > Carl
> >
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