Author: "Mark D. Strohm" <mstrohm AT ucla DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:47:01 -0700
Hello Is there a trick to using Bacula with LTO hardware encryption enabled? With drive encryption turned on, verify jobs are hitting an I/O error reading the first record of a tape file. On a test j
Mark, Bacula is not involved in hardware (tape drive) encryption. The encryption dialog is an exchange of key information between the drive and the encryption key manager, in your case stenc. If your
Author: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:01:46 +0100
Have you checked the syslog in case it recorded something more precise about the I/O error? Also, which tape device driver are you using? In the past, people have had problems with lin_tape (use st
Author: "Mark D. Strohm" <mstrohm AT ucla DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:02:23 -0700
Hello Patti and Martin Thank you for the replies. As I understand it, Bacula should have no problem with LTO hardware encryption because (once set) it is supposed to be transparent at the user level,
Author: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:36:11 +0100
I'm not an expert on this, but a problem that requires the driver to issue a target reset suggests a bug in the driver or in the drive's firmware. Have you tried smartctl or tapeinfo to get more inf