On Saturday 03 June 2006 17:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:27:53 +0200, "Kern Sibbald"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > What you said in the above paragraph is not strictly correct. To the
> > best of my knowledge Bacula has no paths hardcoded, and in particular,
> > the path to the tools in dvd-handler are definitely not hardcoded.
> > They are defined when Bacula is configured. If the tools do not exist
> > on your system, then there may be specific defaults. More likely in
> > your case, you already had the tools in /usr/bin (or perhaps that is
> > where the rpm expects them). When rebuilding the tools from source,
> > you have the choice of where to put the binaries, and apparently their
> > default does not agree with what was previously the case (when you
> > built Bacula or when the rpms were built).
>
> You know, now that I think back to it, you're right. I think I ended up
> realizing that I needed a patched version of the dvd+rw-tools after I
> ran configure for bacula itself, resulting in a mismatch. Oops.
>
> > > If you're getting those messages, check /etc/bacula/dvd-handler and
> > > make sure the definitions near the top of the file match the actual
> > > locations of your dvd+rw tools.
> >
> > This is a good point.
>
> I think that the biggest problem here, the one that should be solved, is
> the fact that it fails in an extremely misleading way, instead of saying
> something like "program not found".
>
> > Unfortunately, your DVD problems may not be over as the current Bacula
> > support for DVDs is at best BETA.
>
> ... they're not problems, they're opportunities! ;)
>
> I suppose we should move this over to the dev list, but I take it that
> some patches to strengthen the DVD support would be well-received? I
> did see the release note saying DVD support is "Beta quality" -- what
> other parts of the DVD support need to be improved?
>
I just recently posted a patch to the bacula-users list (I think, though
perhaps it was the bacula-devel list) that should solve some of the DVD
problems reported -- I believe that it is with manually labeling the DVD
rather than letting Bacula do the labeling.
As best I can tell, the major remaining problem is that under some
circumstances Bacula will write to the DVD (rather than the working
directory) before the first part of the DVD has been filled with data. This
leaves the DVD with a pre-label rather than a real label for the Volume. This
apparently causes no real harm but IMO is rather ugly.
The list archives contain a good number of success stories and a good number
of failures -- probably related more to the 50 zillion types of DVD media and
drive incompatibilities with them than to Bacula bugs ...
--
Best regards,
Kern
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