On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Basura <basura AT sympatico DOT ca> wrote:
>
> Jari Fredriksson wrote:
>
>
>
> i upgraded today to bacula 2.4.2 but won't be trying
> anything in hope
> for some feedback.
>
>
> Current Bacula does not support DVD any more, and the DVD code in it will
> propably get removed in some future release.
>
>
>
> so dvd support started for a while and now it is being removed again??
>

DVD writing in bacula was never more than a beta release.

>
> I use older version 2.0.2, and that seems to work ok. 2.4.2 does not work.
> Neither does 2.2.8.
>
> You propably have to relabel those empty discs, as the label file size
> should be 202 bytes. Bacula DVD documentation gives the needed commands to
> blank the disc so that you can label them again.
>
>
>
> they are 202 bytes, that's the size that bacula dir reports when i try to
> use those, but the problem is bscan doesn't recognize them as 202, thats
> what creates the size mismatch even after i try to fix the catalog with
> bscan
>
> 2) after trying lots of things i manage to burn a disk
> but when it asked for the second disk (which is actually
> part #1, it looks like bacula
> burns from last to first??)
>
>
> I have not seen this kind of behaviour in 2.0.2 version.
>
>
>
>
> finally, if i were to backup to a file and then write a script to burn the
> files, what problems would i encounter? when i used dar to backup, the
> biggest problem i had with this method was that the catalog pointed to those
> tmp files in the hard drive but they were actually in the dvd so the wrong
> paths made me have to manually update every dvd backup's path in the
> database. will bacula do the same? (i.e. store in the catalog some path to a
> backup that would get screwed if i moved the backups from temporary dirs to
> dvds). other problems were not the whole backup being accessible at once
> (since you have to change disks) and controlling when to use new disks (so
> if a disk has only 400MB free it should create a first 400MB file and then
> 4.5GB subsequent files for the rest of the backup). All this was very
> annoying since i had to code it all in a bash script. This was the main
> reason to switch to bacula, that it natively supported dvds. Any
> suggestions?
>

Create File based volumes of 4.5GB and move them to DVD when they are
Full or Used. If you need to restore copy the dvd back to the storage
location first then do the restore.

John



-- 
John M. Drescher

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