Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] DAT72 USB tape-drive support on Linux 2.6 kernel?

2014-08-12 04:51:34
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] DAT72 USB tape-drive support on Linux 2.6 kernel?
From: Huub Van Niekerk <huubvanniekerk AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Andreas Nastke <nastke AT gdp-group DOT com>, Bacula-users <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:42:37 -0700
Hi,

It actually is the HP EB625A, internal USB DAT72 drive but packed as an external Freecom USB DAT drive. As far as I know, USB isn't SCSI...


On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:10 AM, Andreas Nastke <nastke AT gdp-group DOT com> wrote:


start by plugging the hardware in and power it on.

search the logs for messages from whatever driver on your system feels
responsible for this hardware.



Huub Van Niekerk schrieb:
> Thank you for the response.
> You correctly mention that it has to talk SCSI....it's an external USB drive and I don't know the internals of the drive.
> Apart from that, I'm still waiting for an answer on a earlier question about database tables. Bacula hasn't run yet because there are no Bacula MySQL tables, and yes, MySQL runs fine with another database (24/7 actually).
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> On Monday, August 11, 2014 8:28 PM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:

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> On Aug 8, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Huub Van Niekerk <huubvanniekerk AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>> After reading the manuals of v.5 and 7, I doubt my USB DAT72/DDS tapedrive is supported. I used to work with Barracuda, but that license expired. So can anyone give me advise about this ?
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> Bacula doesn’t care about the make/model of your tape drive.  Bacula only cares that it talks SCSI.  If the OS supports it, Bacula supports it.. in general.
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> Have you tried it yet?  What’s stopping you?
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> —
> Dan Langille

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