On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: > > > 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. > > My tape drive does not allow me to eject the tape if Bacula has the > device. I think the key directive from my SD config is: > > Offline on Unmount = yes > > I do not specify AlwaysOpen, but that defaults to Yes. > > What is wrong with unmounting withing bconsole before ejecting the > tape? > There is really nothing wrong with unmounting within bconsole. My problem arises when you *accidentally* eject the tape without unmounting. In my environment, this can easily happen, because we have some tape drives where we just eject the old tape and insert a new one for the nightly backup (not using bacula). I haven't tried the OfflineOnUnmount = yes yet. But my understanding is that it would automatically unmount the tape after the backup (thus causing it to to the time-consuming rewinding and re-positioning). - 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
