On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:04:22 -0700, dieruffgrad said:

I have installed bacula 5.0.3 on opensuse 11.3 64bit. I have been able to
backup to file, and restore from a file backup with no problem. I now have
an HP 72x6 dat external tape drive that I would like to use. I am kind of
lost on how to configure bacula you use a tape drive. I know the device is
dev/st0, but not to sure were to go from there.

There are some example tape configs in the default bacula-sd.conf. Note also
that Bacula should use /dev/nst0, not /dev/st0.

I suggest you run the tape tests described here:

http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/problems/problems/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html

__Martin 


I have ran the tape tests described, they all worked. My problem was more with 
the autochager. Once I figured out that in the bacula-dir.conf under 
autochanger not to specify the device, rather than just setup autochanger in 
the bacula-sd.conf and reference it that way. It is working now. Also I tried 
/dev/nst0 which failed the tape tests, but /dev/st0 worked.

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