>>>>> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:44:42 +0100, Albert Pauw said:
>
> I am using bacula and a vtl (mhvtl) which actually works very nice.
>
> Now I am experimenting with the WORM cartridges setting of mhvtl and
> tried to get bacula to work with it.
>
> Here is what works:
>
> - Write data on the cartridge and rewind -> ok
> - Verify the data written -> ok
> - Try to write data again -> error -> that's what it should do
> - Add another set of data behind the data (mt -f /dev/nst0 EOD, and a
> new tar command) -> ok
> - Verify that both sets can be retrieved -> ok
>
> So, so far so good.
>
> When I add this WORM tape to a bacula pool, I had to label it.
> Unfortunately, I am not able to use the tape
> as bacula rewrites the label again when trying to use it, and gets an
> error from the drive. Well, that's
> what I think is going wrong. So, is it actually possible to use a WORM
> cartridge in bacula? And how
> do I do it?

I think Bacula can't work with WORM cartridges at the moment.  The label is
always part of the first tape file, but you have to label a tape before you
can use it.

__Martin

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