On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in the process of evaluating Bacula for possible Amanda replacement. > I have only a Qualstar changer with one tape drive at my disposal. I > would like for Bacula and Amanda to share the changer and drive. Amanda > uses 30 slots in the magazine of 33 slots, so there are 3 free slots. My > idea is to add three tapes in those slots and have Bacula label them as > its own. Will Bacula leave the other 30 tapes alone?
As far as I know there is no way two different programs can share the same autochanger without having some special locking procedure and without having multiple drives. > > I ask because I've been discovering that several of my Amanda tapes have > been corrupted lately. By corrupted I mean that their Amanda labels in > the first block of the tape are no longer readable, rendering the tape > useless to Amanda. My initial suspicion was that somehow Bacula had > rewritten the labels on those tapes. I can simply have Amanda rewrite the > label on them and they worked fine with Amanda once again. However, I've > been unable to find where or how Bacula is doing this if it did do it. I > also don't think that Bacula would try to do something that destructive > without asking/warning first. Bacula only writes on tapes you tell it to write on, and when it does so, it produces a Job report clearly indicating what it did (providing you configured the email correctly). > > Would Bacula do something like try to label a tape just because it's in > the changer? I did not issue the Bacula command which labels all the > tapes with their barcodes, and this corruption only affected a subset of > the Amanda tapes. Just looking for general strategy tips to get them to > co-exist for a month or two while I decide if I should convert to Bacula > in this setup. > > Thanks, > Fran > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
