On 2/28/2011 9:37 AM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote:

Steve,

I’m using a 124t w/ LT04 tapes. I would appreciate if I could see your conf files for comparison.
Gracias,
JJ

 

Jeremiah Jester
Informatics Specialist

Microbiology – Katze Lab

206-732-6185

 

Tapeinfo output for the LTO3 drive & Dell 124T:

# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'IBM     '
Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-TD3     '
Revision: '6B20'
Attached Changer API: No
SerialNumber: '1210250007'
MinBlock: 1
MaxBlock: 16777215
SCSI ID: 6
SCSI LUN: 0
Ready: yes
BufferedMode: yes
Medium Type: 0x28
Density Code: 0x42
BlockSize: 0
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x1
DeCompType: 0x1
Block Position: 236
Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: -1
Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: -1
ActivePartition: 0
EarlyWarningSize: 0
# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg2
Product Type: Medium Changer
Vendor ID: 'DELL    '
Product ID: 'PV-124T         '
Revision: '0053'
Attached Changer API: No
SerialNumber: 'CH7CB35779'
SCSI ID: 6
SCSI LUN: 1
Ready: yes

bacula-sd.conf autochanger & tape device sections (the buffer size & block size items are left over from some time back--may not be optimal or even helpful anymore):

Autochanger {
  Name = "LTO3-changer"
  Device = "LTO3"
  Changer Device = /dev/sg2
  Changer Command = "/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
}
Device {
  Name = LTO3
  Media Type = LTO3
  Archive Device = /dev/nst0
  Autochanger = Yes
  Drive Index = 0
  Automatic Mount = Yes
  Always Open = Yes
#  Volume Poll Interval = 3 min
#  Close On Poll = Yes
# Offline On Unmount = Yes
  Removable Media = Yes
  Random Access = No
  Maximum Job Spool Size = 50G
  Maximum Block Size = 262144
  Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144
  Maximum File Size = 5G
  Spool Directory = /backup/spool
  Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error /dev/sg1'"
}

-se