On 08/01/17 15:14, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello Phil, > > There should be no difference in how Bacula handles tapes between 7.4.7 > and 9.0.x. If there is I would suggest that you carefully document it > in a way that I can "see" the problem and easily reproduce it so that I > can fix it. mtx-changer will *not* work unless you have an > autochanger. There is no fake autochanger for tapes. There are two > types of "fake" autochangers for Disks. The first one is something like > mhvtl that is a program that simulates in detail and autochanger. The > second is the Bacula virtual disk autochanger.
I did already report this finding in detail in my test reports in bacula-devel. If it SHOULD work, I will revert my configuration and re-test. What I found was that a tape could be read and written in a standalone drive if already mounted when the SD was started, but could not be mounted or unmounted except by stopping the SD and manually using mt. Running the SD at -d 200, it appeared the SD never received the mount/unmount commands. The 'fake autochanger' workaround was suggested by Ana Arruda, who said: "I don't remember in what version the old tape drive configuration in bacula-dir.conf as a stand alone storage device was causing the mount/unmount bconsole commands to do nothing and this is the workaround we have to make it work." -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
