On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Adam <ald.bulk AT googlemail DOT com> wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Adam <ald.bulk AT googlemail DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> I am running into problems with multi-volume DVD backups with Bacula. I
>> have an external USB 2.0 DVD writer which seems to work fine standalone;
>> however, when I attempt to carry out a backup via Bacula it fails randomly
>> with Input / Output errors.
>>
>> I have attempted backups several times with several different DVD media. I
>> can confirm that it fails every time on the first volume. It writes between
>> 1 and 5 parts before dieing with an Input / Output error. I all cases it is
>> caused by growisofs.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
No. DVD writing with bacula has always been beta quality and not
developed or tested as much as the rest of the codebase. A workaround
is to make disk volumes of around 4.5 GB and then burn them to dvd
when needed and after that remove them from the disk. You can even
script this if needed.

John

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