On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 12:08 pm, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: > > > 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: > > As a perhaps poor analogy, think of a bacula mounted medium as a mounted > filesystem. You want to manually unmount a filesystem before taking it down. > > It isn't that the mount isn't recoverable if it gets out of sync, but things > work more cleanly that way. > > >From what I've seen over the past few weeks, bacula is an excellent choice > >for > multi-system backup. It does take some time to learn to admin it, but that > is part of why it is a good choice. > > > 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? > > In your described case it might well be as simple as mounting the drive with > bconsole if you manually eject/reinsert it. > Thank you all you nice people offering help. This is really wonderfull.
Now Michael, I also agree with your analogy with a mounted filesystem. But the problem is that even if I mounted with bconsole afterwards, it is still blocked. Bacula is waiting for appendable media to do next backups. > Kern has emphasized to me that in the 1.39.+ releases it will be more > important than ever to only make media changes with bconsole. With an > autochanger that (nominally) locks closed, I find it easy enough to use > bconsole to manage media in the drives; that way I can manage it all running > gconsole from my linux desktop. > > -- > > -- Michael I am just wondering, whether there shouldn't be a way to fix the problem if something like the above happens. - 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
