Hello,
2013/10/4 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org>
> On 2013-10-04 04:54, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 2013/10/3 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org>
>>
>> Regardless of target, there will be some VM configuring to get the
>>
>> appropriate backup device mapped so that bacula-sd can use it. That
>> can be nontrivial, particularly if SCSI passthrough is required for a
>> tape lbirary, etc. Or are you just going to support disk storage only?
>>
>> To get SCSI going from within the VM would be interesting. Do you
>> intend
>> for the VM to access external SCSI devices on the host?
>>
>> For testing only you can use VTL inside VM.
>>
>
> Yes, the virtual tape library is well tested and known to work well.
> It is thoroughly exercised by the regression testing. Use of the VTL
> would be a good scenario to include within this project.
I mean "real" VTL, not a "fake" build in Bacula itself. When someone wants
to check how Bacula work with a real tape library, I show him a VTL, ie:
# lsscsi -g
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd QEMU QEMU DVD-ROM 1.1. /dev/sr0 /dev/sg0
[2:0:0:0] mediumx STK L700 0104 /dev/sch0 /dev/sg9
[2:0:1:0] tape IBM ULT3580-TD5 0104 /dev/st0 /dev/sg1
[2:0:2:0] tape IBM ULT3580-TD5 0104 /dev/st1 /dev/sg2
[2:0:3:0] tape IBM ULT3580-TD4 0104 /dev/st2 /dev/sg3
[2:0:4:0] tape IBM ULT3580-TD4 0104 /dev/st3 /dev/sg4
[2:0:8:0] mediumx STK L80 0104 /dev/sch1 /dev/sg10
[2:0:9:0] tape STK T10000B 0104 /dev/st4 /dev/sg5
[2:0:10:0] tape STK T10000B 0104 /dev/st5 /dev/sg6
[2:0:11:0] tape STK T10000B 0104 /dev/st6 /dev/sg7
[2:0:12:0] tape STK T10000B 0104 /dev/st7 /dev/sg8
best regards
--
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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