>>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:27:23 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > Greetings: > > Since my baffled post I've been doing some testing w/various sd.conf > tweaks. btape results and fbsd ports message initially recommended: > > Due to lack of some features in the FreeBSD tape driver > implementation you MUST add some OS dependent options to > the bacula-sd.conf file: > > Hardware End of Medium = no; > Backward Space Record = no; > Backward Space File = no; > > With 2 filemarks at EOT (see man mt): > Fast Forward Space File = no; > BSF at EOM = yes; > TWO EOF = yes; > > > While btape completes w/above no problem, from man mt it looks like FBSD > supports bsr, however, and a few tests from command line seem to > confirm so I trimmed sd.conf down thusly: > > Hardware End of Medium = no; > Fast Forward Space File = no; > BSF at EOM = yes; > TWO EOF = yes; > > btape test completes fine and no longer recommend the bsr related > tweaks. Maybe they're not necessary and btape should be modified? > Don't know about fill results yet - running now. Hopefully I'll > encounter the magic incantation to get my autochanger to actually > change tapes...
In the current Bacula tape driver, Backward Space Record is only used to verify that the last block has been written correctly when a tape gets full, it is not strictly necessary. In addition, the setting of Backward Space File is ignored (bsf must work). You might be able to use these settings on some FBSD tape drives: Fast Forward Space File = yes BSF at EOM = no TWO EOF = no __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
