" I could have bought a hard disk with much more capacity then the  
discs provide, but..."


it´s great to have backups "forever" - if some of my costumer ask for  
a file from one or two years
ago, i can say - ok, let me have a look, maybe it is possible.

Michael


Am 29.11.2008 um 19:12 schrieb Jari Fredriksson:

>>> For patches. Tell me about the plan, if you know it.
>>>
>>> When recycling a DVD media Bacula writes a 0 bytes
>>> length label file, and documents that it is how it
>>> should be. When mounting a DVD media Bacula tries to
>>> read the label file, and complains if it is 0 bytes and
>>> has no data.
>>>
>>
>> Is that the only problem?
>
> No it is not. Its the bug #0001186, the main problem is bug #0001184
>
>>
>> I can think of a workaround for that. I mean delete the
>> recycled media
>> from bacula. Then blank the media and use it as new media.
>>
>> John
>
> It was mentioned as an example how hard it is to write patches. I  
> have worked on the main problem, but did nothing to the mentioned  
> problem as a patch, as there must be a plan.
>
> There must be a reason a developer has decided to write a zero- 
> length file when recycling. What is that reason? The mount function  
> does not appreciate that, but should I patch that then? Which way I  
> go? Indeed that one is not that hard, but its not the case I was  
> working with.
>
> The bastard is #0001184, why does it not update the last Part to the  
> Catalog? As I do not work (either) full time with bacula, that  
> remains a mystery to me.
>
> #0001184 says 2.4.x does not update the last part to catalog.
>
> 2.2.8 has totally different problems, and I have not currently  
> anything to say publicly about it (I removed it from disk).
>
> I'm currently downloading everything with svn and will see what  
> happens.
>
> I understand that DVD backup is not important to corporations. But  
> it is a feature in Bacula, and I went that route as my DDS-drive  
> died I wanted a new solution without a Lottery win. DVD+RW media is  
> not very cheap, I could have bought a hard disk with much more  
> capacity then the discs provide, but...
>
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