Hi.
Noah wrote:
this is most likely due to the fact that bacula has not mounted the drive. this is different than when the operating system mounts a device, altho I can see how the termonology can be misleading. typing "mount" in bconsole should do the trick. it looks like from the messages bellow, the user that you are running bconsole as does not have permission to read/write to the /dev/sa0 device. you will probably want to take care of this too ;)
Thanks Pete - I think I am understanding you. if you look at the output below. I typed "mount" and specified the onstream drive. after the successful mount executing the label command complains of /dev/sa0 not being mounted. what else can I try here?
can you please tell me or point me to the location in the documentation that explains how I can grant permission for read/write to the /dev/sa0. I am running bconsole as root at the moment and find that I can write just fine to /dev/sa0 .
Well, the point is that it's not bconsole doing the actual work with the tape drive, but bacula-sd (SD). So, you need to make sure that the user the SD runs as has the necessary rights.
I assume that unter FreeBSD the bacula installations starts the SD as a user bacula, group bacula. Then, make sure this user (or group) has read and write permissions on /dev/sa0. Now, I don't know FreeBSD device configuration scheme, but perhaps the chown command and / or chmod can help you, but perhaps you also have to set up a device file system configuration or something alike.
From my experience, the regular FreeBSD documentation, like the manual pages etc., are quite good, so you should find the necessary information yourself if nobody else knows more details...
Apart from that, you can, of course, run the SD as root - IIRC there are cases where some IOCTL operations can _only_ be done as root, so this is necessary in some cases anyway. Of course, on a system with user access you want to make sure that the SD can not be accessed or configured by everybody.
Hope that helps,
Arno
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# whoami root # bconsole Connecting to Director typhoon:9101 1000 OK: typhoon-dir Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) Enter a period to cancel a command. *mount Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: Onstream Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 3001 OK mount. Device=/dev/sa0 You have messages. *label The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: Onstream Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Enter new Volume name: backup Automatically selected Pool: Default Connecting to Storage daemon Onstream at typhoon.enabled.com:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume "backup" Slot 0 ... 3910 Unable to open device /dev/sa0. ERR=dev.c:289 stored: unable to open device /dev/sa0: ERR=Permission denied
Label command failed for Volume backup. Do not forget to mount the drive!!! *
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cheers,
Noah
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