Hello,
There are others on this list who can possibly help you, but many of your
problems would be resolved by upgrading to 1.38.11. Of course, there is a
certain effort and learning code involved. 1.36.2 is *very* old.
On Friday 15 September 2006 13:25, Geir Asle Borgen wrote:
> I have a working configuration of Bacula, where I take incremental
> backup to disk 5 days a week and a Full backup to disk once a month.
> There is a new volum every day with the retention of 57 days (almost two
> months). The system runs on some Debian Sarge boxes with bacula-1.36.2
> and mtx-1.2.16rel-4.
>
> Now I want to take a full backup to tape once a month and store it for
> 12 months before I recycle them. This is in addiction to the disk
> backup. For this purpose I want to use an Sun StorEdge L9 (Vendor ID: HP
> Product ID: C7145-8000) with a DLT8000 tape station inside.
>
> What works today:
> * Once a month there will be taken a full backup to a different storage
> device on a different pool (for tape backup) then the reste of the days
> in the mount.
> * I can take backup to tape.
> * Mtx works and can change tape in the robot from command line `mtx
> -f /dev/sg1 load 3 /dev/nst0`
>
> What do NOT work today:
> * Bacula will not change tape in the robot with the mtx-changer script
> that comes with bacula.
> * I can't label tapes in the robot without changing tape manually (from
> command line or with buttons on the robot), which lead to the fact that
> bacula will not know which slot a specific volum is stored. The reason
> is obviously the first point that do not work ...
>
> In the manual (for 1.36) I read about "Daily Tape Rotation" (page 280),
> and there it is written that I had to have one pool for each tape, is
> that stil so ... still in version 1.36 (I might upgrade to 1.38, but
> rader not). But it also says that it in this case was necessary to use
> "Always Open = No" in bacula-sd.conf, can some one me explain this?
>
> Parts of my bacula-sd.conf:
>
> # A Linux or Solaris tape drive
>
> Device {
> Name = DLT8000-Dracula
> Media Type = DLT8000-L9
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/sg1
> AutoChanger = yes
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> Offline On Unmount = yes
> Spool Directory = /disks/DRACULA1/Bacula-Spool
> }
>
> Parts of my bacula-dir.conf:
>
> # When to do the backups, full backup to tape on first saterday of the
> month,
> # full backup to disk on first sunday of the month and incremental
> backups
> # other days
> Schedule {
> Name = "WeeklyCycle"
> Run = Full 1st sun at 1:05
> # Run = Full Storage=Dracula-Tape Pool=Dracula-Full-Tape-Pool 1st sat
> at 1:05
> Run = Incremental tue-sat at 1:05
> }
>
> # Dracula-Tape
> Storage {
> Name = Full-Tape-Dracula
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> # Do not use "localhost" here
> Address = XXX.YYY.ZZZ
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "XXXXXX"
> Device = DLT8000-Dracula
> Media Type = DLT8000-L9
> Autochanger = yes
> }
>
> # Tape Pool for Full Backup on Dracula
> Pool {
> Name = Dracula-Full-Tape-Pool
> Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
> # Label Format =
> "VOLUME-Dracula-Tape-${Year}.${Month:p/2/0/r}.${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> Pool Type = Backup
> # Volume Use Duration = 14d
> Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Volume Retention = 350 days # almost year
> Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
> }
>
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