I want to thank everyone on the list especially Pierre for helping me with my setup. I was finally able to get things working here. Here is what I had to do.
1. The first hurdle was to understand bacula's configuration and this took some quiet time to RTFM. 2. My setup is: Fedora Core 3 on a Dual Athlon 64bit processor, Adaptec 39160 and Dell PowerVault 124-T with LTO-2 Drive and one magazine. 3. Load the mtx rpm for FC 3 4. Edit rc.local to get sg_mod loaded (added line modprobe sg). Other Fedora admins might know the proper way but it works for me. 5. Ran the btape test program which passed with flying colors but failed the autochanger test. 6. Ran the autochanger test separately and it passed. 7. Ran the fill command and found that this failed when it tried to change tapes. 8. After a 3 hour phone call session with Dell it turns out that the Firmware on the 124T was outdated. I got the correct file from Dell and ran the utility from the command line and updated the Drive's firmware, restarted the 124T and the server, using the Web interface upgraded the Loaders firmware and restarted the 124T and my server. 9. Edited the mtx-changer to use wait_for_device option. 10. Ran bconsole and did label barcodes Everything ran fine until the job that I had scheduled a week ago at the start kicked off and stopped the labeling process. But while I was trying to figure out what happened it had done two backups. So the firmware upgrade seems to be a must for things to work. The firmware version on the autoloader is 31.0 and the Drives firmware is version 1826. Again thanks to everyone on the list for their patience and help. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" ------------------------------------------------------- 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
