Hello Martin,
One question: are you using mhvtl on daily basis on for testing purposes? I
want to use it, but i don´t see an option that allow to redirect virtual
tape contents to another folder (/opt/mhvtl is default path). That is the
reason that i can´t use it.
Regards and thanks in advance
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com>wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:44:42 +0100, Albert Pauw said:
> >
> > I am using bacula and a vtl (mhvtl) which actually works very nice.
> >
> > Now I am experimenting with the WORM cartridges setting of mhvtl and
> > tried to get bacula to work with it.
> >
> > Here is what works:
> >
> > - Write data on the cartridge and rewind -> ok
> > - Verify the data written -> ok
> > - Try to write data again -> error -> that's what it should do
> > - Add another set of data behind the data (mt -f /dev/nst0 EOD, and a
> > new tar command) -> ok
> > - Verify that both sets can be retrieved -> ok
> >
> > So, so far so good.
> >
> > When I add this WORM tape to a bacula pool, I had to label it.
> > Unfortunately, I am not able to use the tape
> > as bacula rewrites the label again when trying to use it, and gets an
> > error from the drive. Well, that's
> > what I think is going wrong. So, is it actually possible to use a WORM
> > cartridge in bacula? And how
> > do I do it?
>
> I think Bacula can't work with WORM cartridges at the moment. The label is
> always part of the first tape file, but you have to label a tape before you
> can use it.
>
> __Martin
>
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