On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:08, 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?
As long as Bacula is not writing on the tape at the moment you ejected the tape, the data is fine and can be read by Bacula. However, when you eject a tape without unmounting the storage device first, Bacula will not know or except that you have changed the tape until you unmount and re-mount the storage device. > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
