You just need to have your tape drive working on linux (maybe this should help: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/446886-HP-DAT-72-USB-external) and I´m quite sure you will be able to manage it from Bacula. If you are able to manage your tape drive with linux "mt" command, it´s very propably you will be able to manage it from Bacula.
It looks like that drive is listed, or at least one that’s very similar (Freecom
USB DAT-72e).
From:
Huub Van Niekerk [mailto:huubvanniekerk AT yahoo DOT com] Sent: 12 August 2014 10:43 To: Andreas Nastke; Bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] DAT72 USB tape-drive support on Linux 2.6 kernel?
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...
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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