On 12/23/10 10:37, Telemat wrote:
> Thanks drescherjm for the reply,
> 
> I did what you said and still no joy. What should I putting as the media type 
> and device type in bacula-sd.conf? currently my bacula-sd.conf looks like 
> this: -
> Device {
>   Name = Ultrium-TD3
>   DriveIndex = 0
>   MediaType = LTO3
>   ArchiveDevice = /dev/st0 (I have tried nst0, but still no joy)
>   AutomaticMount = yes;
>   AlwaysOpen = yes;
>   RandomAccess = no;
>   RemovableMedia = yes;
>   DeviceType = LTO3
> }

It is *really important* that you use /dev/nst0, not /dev/st0, here.  If
you use /dev/st0, the OS can rewind the tape drive without Bacula's
knowledge, causing you to overwrite and destroy your own backups.


First things first:  Can you communicate with the tape drive OUTSIDE
Bacula?  With the Bacula storage daemon stopped, can you run this command:

mt -f /dev/st0 status

and get useful output from it?  The first step is to get your drive
working at the OS level.  If you can't do that, you'll get nowhere.

Does your kernel have SCSI tape support either compiled in or available
as a compiled module?


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