Le jeudi 01 juin 2006 à 08:37 +0200, Michel Meyers a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jérôme Warnier wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Just a general question: > > is it best with Bacula under Linux to use tapes with rewind or > > non-rewind device? > > It really depends on what you're doing but usually you should use the > non-rewinding device nodes to avoid having the drive rewind > unexpectedly. When using Backup software like Bacula, you actually MUST > use the non-rewinding device, otherwise you get into trouble (the > software does its own rewinds and doesn't expect the tape to be rewound > without it having done it itself). I used to do backups with tar and cpio, and used to use non-rewinding tape device drivers, but for such a system as Bacula, I did not know if this was still applicable or if Bacula didn't care internally. I will switch to non-rewind and see what happens.
Thanks > Greetings, > Michel _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
