Hi,
13.11.2007 07:10,, Richard Walker wrote::
> I too am trying to get DVD burning working, following Richard
> Mortimer's "tricks and tips" page.
>
> I've been able to get a job of about 65 MB to write to DVD OK. The
> problem I'm having is
> with a job that's about 9 GB. As you can see I set the SpoolDirectory
> to /tmp/backup,
> but I don't have 9 GB free in there. My reading of the
> MaximumPartSize setting is that it's
> supposed to finish one "part", then write it to DVD, then delete it
> from the spool directory
> before writing the next "part". That's not happening - more and more
> "parts" are created
> in the spool directory and it fills up
This looks like it would be worth a bug report.
> (at least, I let it get very
> close before cancelling the job because
> it's in /tmp). If I cancel the job after about five or six parts have
> been created, the storage
> daemon writes the _last_ part to the DVD and deletes it, leaving the
> others in the spool
> directory.
>
> As you can see I tried the MaximumSpoolSize and MaximumJobSpoolSize
> settings as well,
> but they didn't do anything and I now have them commented out. I
> don't have spooling turned
> on anywhere else (or in the director).
>
> I turned on debugging of the storage daemon. It seems it is not that
> the daemon is trying
> and failing to write a part to the DVD - it is not even trying. So
> I've been wondering if
> my understanding of MaximumPartSize is wrong.
If it's not even writing to DVD there is something seriously wrong.
Do you see calls to dvd-handler in the SD's debug output?
> Device {
> Name = "DVD Writer"
> Media Type = DVD
> Device Type = DVD
> Archive Device = /dev/dvd
> LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> MaximumPartSize = 800M;
> # MaximumSpoolSize = 2000M;
> # MaximumJobSpoolSize = 2000M;
> RequiresMount = yes;
> MountPoint = /media/cdrecorder;
> MountCommand = "/bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m";
> UnmountCommand = "/bin/umount %m";
> SpoolDirectory = "/tmp/backup";
> WritePartCommand = "/etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a write %e %v"
> FreeSpaceCommand = "/etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a free"
> }
Arno
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www.its-lehmann.de
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