[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> May 31 13:18:46 chdata1 Unable to identify CD-ROM format. >>
I also get these same exact errors. Running FC5 on AMD64 with kernel 2.6.16-xen and bacula 1.38.8. > I believe these errors are normal with dvd writing on bacula as I recieve > them too > but dvd writing works for me.. > One really does not like to see such nasty looking errors when making a backup. > Did you blank the disk with this command? I don't think just a format is > enough. > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=512 | growisofs -Z /dev/xxx=/dev/fd/0 > You can also do: /etc/bacula/dvd-handler /dev/xxx prepare I can remember this more easily than the other command. > A couple of other things. I found to use dvd media bacula must autolabel the > media > because the label command does not work with dvds (at least it has never > worked for > me). I have had the most success with dvd+rw media. Also there is an append > patch in > this list (in last 60 days) that you may need to get bacula to write more > data to > the disk after the inital write. I reposted the patch along with a gentoo > ebuild > that applies the patch. > I seem to be having issues with the label command also. The thing is, I number all of my DVD media. I do not want bacula to just pick a number to autolabel a new piece of media. I want to tell it what number is already written on the media (especially if the media is not already labeled and it has been expired/deleted from the database. What is the proper way to handle this? -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
