On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:14:08 -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Am 05.11.2008 22:03 schrieb Dan Langille:
>>> - Bacula has known how to use the current tape that is a drive for a
>>> long time
>>> now. It is discouraged, but just a matter of configuration.
>>
>> I'm sorry but I'm starting to have serious doubts about that.
>> I have been trying for a long time and in many different ways
>> to get that to work, and each time I ask a question here why
>> my latest attempt doesn't work either, the answer is "post
>> config", "post log", and then: silence.
>
> What can I say? I'm not responsible for people not answering.
> Nor is anybody else. That's how it works. Or more precisely,
> doesn't.
Sure. I'm not complaining about that. Sorry if my answer came
across as such. But the fact that nobody could come up with an
answer might indicate that the answer doesn't exist.
>> And if it is discouraged, what is the recommended alternative?
>
> Work with Bacula, not against it. I don't know what more to say.
Sure, and I'm trying my best to do exactly that. But the topic
of this thread is desirable new features for Bacula, ie. things
that currently cannot be done but would be nice if they could.
For me, better support for the classic scenario "standalone tape
drive with daytime operator and nighttime backups" does fall
into that category, and surely the existence of unanswerable
questions in that area seems to indicate that there is indeed
room for improvement.
Again, I do not want to complain. Bacula is a great product,
and the support from the Bacula community is better than the
company support of many commercial products I have used. All
I want to do with my contributions to this thread is to help
making Bacula even better. If the community decides that my
scenario lies outside the main target area of Bacula then
that's fine with me.
Thanks,
Tilman
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Tilman Schmidt
Phoenix Software GmbH
Bonn, Germany
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