Hi, I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and storage daemon on a Debian (sarge) machine which has a scsi DLT tape drive attached to it. The version of bacula is 1.36.2. It looks promising, except for one annoying, and in my view, serious problem:
The tape drive allows me to eject the tape by pressing an 'unload' button. However, afterwards, when I re-insert the tape, bacula cannot read it, so all the backup data is useless. (Of course, if I have 'unmounted' the tape from within bconsole before ejecting, bacula has no problem accessing the data afterwards.) The question is, is there any way to make bacula accept the tape if the tape was accidientally, 'improperly' ejected? I have browsed the mailing list archive and seen the advice that I could use AlwaysOpen = no and OfflineOnUnmount = yes to guarantee that bacula unmounts the tape after each backup. But the advice comes with the warning that for each backup bacula will be rewinding and re-positioning the tape consuming a lot of time, so leaving the default behaviour is really preferred. If someone knows that this problem does not exist in newer versions of bacula, I could upgrade to the version (1.38.11) in the Debian testing distribution. I would greatly appreciate any help regarding this. Thanks. - Sarath ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
