On Friday 18 November 2005 10:02, richard wrote: > Rowdy wrote: > > richard wrote: > >> Hi List, > >> > >> There have been a number of postings over the last few years mentioning > >> Seagate STT20000A IDE tape drives - has anyone managaed to get one to > >> work with Bacula? > >> > >> FWIW - Suse 9.3 on Athlon 2600XP, Bacula 1.38.1 (and earlier versions) > > > > <snip> > > > >> Any thoughts gratefully recieved! > > > > Greetings, > > > > I tried for a while, even though I remember reading somewhere in the > > Bacula documentation that this model tape drive is not supported. > > > > I am using FreeBSD 5.3 and Bacula 1.34.6 btw. > > > > After many tries, mainly experimenting to try to compensate for the > > difference between tape block size reported by Bacula (btape) and the > > tape drive documentation, I could not get btape to successfully run, so > > I gave up. > > > > tar and dump seem to work ok with the tape drive however. > > > > I ended up doing Bacula backups to an external hard drive in a USB > > enclosure. > > > > Rowdy > > Hi Rowdy, > > Thanks for that, though I am unhappy that I have tar working OK -> may > not be a bacula problem (at this stage).
The fact that tar works is not surprising. It is a typical *dumb* program that simply uses write() and read(). It never needs to do tape positioning either at the file level or at the block level. Bacula must do both, though you can inhibit most everything it does at the expense of a performance penalty. > > I was given the drive c/w a box of little-used tapes and it would be > ideal for my home system, so worth persevering a little longer! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
