Hi, 14.02.2010 22:49, shouldbe q931 wrote: > erm, high embarrassment mode > > mt wasn't installed...
I guess you're not the first to run into that sort of problem :-) > [r...@sp-mirror-02 ~]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x44 (no translation). > Soft error count since last status=0 > General status bits on (41010000): > BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN > > > however I think that some responsibility lies elsewhere, shouldn't the > bacula install rpm require mt as a pre-req ? Well, that's a difficult questions - either you force people only doing disk backups to install mt (and mtx, though that requirement is under discussion, perhaps even removed already), or you leave that part of the system setup to the administrator. However, in the (currently rather hidden) chapter on "Testing your tape drive", which is clearly pointed to from the "Getting started with Bacula" part of the manual, mt is referenced as a tool to use before going into production. Had you followed the manual, you would have noticed that mt is missing earlier... For reference: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html Cheers, Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
