Re: [Bacula-users] Problem of configuring Autochanger for Bacula 5.2.13

Hello,

2014-05-13 13:26 GMT+02:00 Keith T <keithbacu AT yahoo DOT com>:

Thanks all for your reply and informative document!

As stated on my previous message, I was using root to run bacula services and assumed it has no privilege issue. But not sure whether I have to run as bacula ID since I saw some suggested to do so?

root     14419     1 4 May08 ?        06:03:09 /sbin/bacula-sd -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf
root     14440     1 25 May08 ?        1-07:39:19 /sbin/bacula-fd -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf
root     14463     1 0 May08 ?        00:02:01 /sbin/bacula-dir -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf

I wonder why the command prompted me to check "sg device" but not "sd device" since I was connected a USB docking with dual slots.

Recap:
#Bacula is running as root
[root@backupsys bacula]# /etc/bacula/mtx-changer /etc/bacula/usbchanger1.conf list
/etc/bacula/usbchanger1.conf is not an sg device, or old sg driver

In My Very Humble Opinion you are going in the wrong way!!! Stop before someone gets hurt. :)

First of all. Do you have a tape library or autochanger connected into your Bacula server? Could you show an output of the command (run as root):

# lsscsi -g

If you do not have any tape library then please forget about mtx-changer script. It is for tape library/autochanger not disks.

In this case (hard disk storage) you should use a very simple configuration, i.e. for two virtual devices:

# An autochanger device

Autochanger {

Name = disk-storage

Device = File-Storage-0

Device = File-Storage-1

}

Device {

Name = File-Storage-0

Media Type = disk

Device Type = File

Archive Device = /backup/volumes

Automatic Mount = yes;

AlwaysOpen = yes;

RemovableMedia = no;

RandomAccess = yes;

Drive Index = 0

AutoChanger = yes

Label Media = yes

Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1

}

Device {

Name = File-Storage-1