This does seem to be working. I installed the VS160 drivers from the
Quantum site, and WinBacula 2.0.3.Here is some more info with
comments and questions in parens:
My storage Device def:
Device {
Name = VS160 #
Media Type = VS160
Device Type = Tape
Archive De
Hello Andreas,
This is a rather ugly solution, but as long as it is working, I am
happy. One problem I have found is when I 'force' bacula to unmount
and eject the tape, it will not automatically mount the new tape. So
I have two jobs, one to do the unmount, and one to do a mount before
backups
> Everything worked pretty much right out of the box. Took a lot of
> messing around to get bacula to do a scheduled ejection of the tape,
> but that's "beta software" for you!
>
> Gordon
Hi Gordon,
could you please tell me your suggestions/hints/examples about a "scheduled tape
ejection"? I'm
Hi,
On 4/3/2007 2:36 AM, Jeff Dickens wrote:
> Has anyone been using tape drives on a Windows-based sd ?
Yes. Not me, but I follow the list and there are people using windows as
an SD with a tape drive.
> I've had to
> remove the tape drive from the system where my director and main
> disk-b
Jeff,
I'm running the latest bacula on a windows system, with a Dell (ibm)
LTO3 drive. No problems at all so far, nock on wood. This is a
little different from what you're asking, but I don't see that it
matters, since director, client and storage are all separate daemons.
Everything worked pre
