I'm new to Bacula coming from and OLD version of Legato. I'm going to be using an ADIC Scalar 100 w/4 SDX700C AIT-3 drives and all AIT-3 media to backup several TB of data. I have poked around and do see others using this drive type. I'm interested to see what settings others use
I got bacula and mtx installed and can drive the robot without issue. I loaded slot 9 into drive 0 (rmt0 in my config below) and began the "Testing Your Tape Drive" section. I performed the tar operation against about 2GB of data with no issues or errors so I defined the robot and tapes in the bacula-sd.conf file (below) but receive this output. I did play with a few settings (Block Positioning, Min/Max block) but it didn't seem to help: r...@johnson:/opt/bacula/sbin# ./btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/rmt/0cbn Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:285 Using device: "/dev/rmt/0cbn" for writing. 18-Nov 17:48 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. 18-Nov 17:48 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 9. btape: btape.c:383 open device "rmt0" (/dev/rmt/0cbn): OK *test === Write, rewind, and re-read test === I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind, and re-read the data to verify that it is correct. This is an *essential* feature ... btape: btape.c:841 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:515 Wrote 1 EOF to "rmt0" (/dev/rmt/0cbn) btape: btape.c:857 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:515 Wrote 1 EOF to "rmt0" (/dev/rmt/0cbn) btape: btape.c:866 Rewind OK. 1000 blocks re-read correctly. 18-Nov 17:50 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:1106 Volume data error at 0:1000! Short block of 2048 bytes on device "rmt0" (/dev/rmt/0cbn) discarded. btape: btape.c:878 Read block 1001 failed! ERR=I/O error * Right now I have the configuration below (I have only included the 1st device since that's what I'm trying to test, tapes 2,3,4 are duplicates with appropriate changes). I removed the settings recommended in testing because they didn't fix anything. # ADIC Scalar 100 Autochanger { Name = ADIC-Scalar-100 Device = rmt0 Device = rmt1 Device = rmt2 Device = rmt3 Changer Command = "/opt/bacula/etc/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" Changer Device = /dev/scsi/changer/c0t2d0 } Device { Name = rmt0 Archive Device = /dev/rmt/0cbn Device Type = Tape; Media Type = AIT-3 AutoChanger = yes; Changer Device = /dev/scsi/changer/c0t2d0 Changer Command = "/opt/bacula/etc/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" Alert Command = "sh -c '/opt/bacula/sbin/tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'" Drive Index = 0 AlwaysOpen = yes; AutomaticMount = yes; RemovableMedia = yes; RandomAccess = no; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users