On Monday 06 February 2006 17:50, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2/6/2006 4:20 PM, John Demme wrote:
> > I'm trying to get Bacula to backup to my removable SATA hard drive. I
> > want bacula to manage whether of not the drive is mounted. Thus, I have
> > the following bacula-sd device area:
> >
> > Device {
> > Name = FileStorage
> > Media Type = RemovableFile
> > Archive Device = /dev/sdg1
>
> oh oh...
>
> > Requires Mount = yes
> > Mount Point = /mnt/backup1
> > Mount Command = "/bin/mount /mnt/backup1"
> > Unmount Command = "/bin/umount /mnt/backup1"
> > Write Part Command = "/usr/bin/true"
> >
> > LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
> > Random Access = Yes;
> > AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> > RemovableMedia = yes;
> > AlwaysOpen = no;
> > }
> >
> >
> > However, when I try to label the drive the following hits me:
> >
> > *label
> > Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
> > Automatically selected Storage: File
> > Enter new Volume name: Daily001
> > Defined Pools:
> > 1: Daily
> > 2: Monthly
> > Select the Pool (1-2): 1
> > Connecting to Storage daemon File at sophy:9103 ...
> > Sending label command for Volume "Daily001" Slot 0 ...
> > 3910 Unable to open device "FileStorage" (/dev/sdg1): ERR=The media in
> > the device "FileStorage" (/dev/sdg1) is not empty, please blank it
> > before writing anything to it.
> >
> > Label command failed for Volume Daily001.
> > Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
> >
> >
> > So I guess Bacula thinks I'm backing up to a DVD or CD since I'm using
> > the requires mount = yes option.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> You can't achieve what you want like this.
>
> The requires mount options and related stuff heavily depend on the write
> part command program, so first, you'd need a real program that does what
> dvd-handler does with DVDs - writing part files to the device, mainly.
>
> Unless you're ready to read through the SD code - especially the parts
> regarding DVD writing - and creating a customized write part command
> program, what you want to do is not easily possible.
>
> There have been some suggestions as to how effectively use removable
> hard disk storage recently, you might want to search the archives for
> these. Also, Kern has started thinking about how to handle removable
> disks, so it might be that he comes up with something some day.
It is now working for some time in version 1.39.5. However, I haven't found
the time to document it yet, and I don't yet recommend 1.39.5 for any serious
production backups ...
>
> And, of course, you can always suggest how Bacula should handle this
> sort of stuff, and also submit code :-)
>
> Arno
>
> > Thanks,
> > John Demme
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