Am Donnerstag, 2. März 2006 23:11 schrieb Arno Lehmann: > Hello, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thank you Arno.
> > On 3/2/2006 2:03 PM, Thomas Franz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am very new to bacula. My question : Is it possible (e.g. with > > bconsole) to seek the "append position" of a tape after rewinding the > > tape because of a restore etc. > > No. The only way to position to EOD is by starting a job which uses the > volume. > > > In the case of a backup run it takes a long time ( up to hours ) until > > the storage daemon is finding the end-of-data position . ( Of course > > only if the tape is nearly full). > > Well, any other repositioning command Bacula could implement would > probably use the same methods, so would be exactly as fast or slow as > what you observe. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Of course , but not at that time the backup should start. It would be a nice feature to do this before. > > > We are using bacula 1.36.3 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine. > > The backup hardware is an EXABYTE Changer with an IBM LTO-3 drive. > > It seems to work well after testing with btape and using the following > > parameters: > > ... > > Hardware End of Medium = no > > BSF at EOM = yes > > Backward Space Record = no > > Fast Forward Space File = no > > This setting might influence the positioning time a lot. Have you tried > running btape with this set to on? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes, but no success. Thomas > > > TWO EOF = yes > > .... > > > > Thanks. > > The problem is that Bacula - or any other serious and > hardware-independent tape solution can't rely on the relatively fast > command to move to the EOD because it's not always possible to determine > the correct tape position then. The tape position (in terms of file mark > number) is needed to make sure the tape is correctly represented in the > catalog. > > Arno > > > Thomas > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > > language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the > > live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > > coding territory! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
