Re: [Bacula-users] cannot access tape device
2008-05-19 08:33:49
Randy Schultz wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Attila F�l�p spaketh thusly:
>
> -}No I don't think so. I had to run the btape tests yesterday since I did a
> major
> -}upgrade of my OS (mail is soon to follow). So now I know what I'm talking
> about ;-)
> -}The first problem you have is that, at least under FreeBSD, btape can't
> access the
> -}tape drive without a tape in it. I would suggest the following procedure:
> -}
> -} - place two blank tapes into slots 1 + 2, btape looks for them there.
> -} - load the first tape: mtx -f /dev/pass1 load 1 and wait for the changer
> -} to settle
> -} - run btape, it should now have no problem with the tape drive.
> -} - run the test command, it will test the changer as well
> -} - run the fill test
>
> Ha-ha! SCORE!
>
> No tape in the drive. All tests passed with flying colors!!!! I went back
> over the documentation on the bacula site and found a blurb about for freebsd
> making sure a tape is loaded before starting bacula.
>
> Tnx heaps and loads, Attila.
>
> Hey BTW - do you or anybody know how to get the bconsole program to build on
> freebsd? I did a simple make install in the bacula-server ports dir but
> bconsole didn't get built. I've found /usr/local/share/bacula/bconsole which
> is just a front-end for /usr/local/sbin/bconsole which doesn't exist. Locate
> just shows the one in /usr/local/share/bacula:
> root dude ? locate bconsole
> /usr/local/share/bacula/bconsole
> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-2.2.8/manpages/bconsole.8
> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-2.2.8/scripts/bconsole
> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-2.2.8/scripts/bconsole.in
> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-2.2.8/src/console/bconsole.conf
> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-2.2.8/src/console/bconsole.conf.in
> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-2.2.8/src/win32/installer/bconsole.conf.in
>
> This is also the only instance that shows up in the install log:
> root dude ? egrep bconsole /tmp/bacula-server.install
> config.status: creating scripts/bconsole
> config.status: creating src/console/bconsole.conf
> /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 0754 bconsole
> /usr/local/share/bacula/bconsole
>
> So where's the bin?
/usr/local/sbin/bconsole
> I'm thinking this may be a question for the port maintainer but and still
> poking around trying things. I originally installed with bat and bwx support
> disabled but am going to rebuild with both enabled to see if the binary is
> generated.
>
> --
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>
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