Re: [Bacula-users] tape support in Windows sd

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff Dickens
This does seem to be working. I installed the VS160 drivers from the Quantum site, and WinBacula 2.0.3.Here is some more info with comments and questions in parens: My storage Device def: Device { Name = VS160 # Media Type = VS160 Device Type = Tape Archive De

Re: [Bacula-users] tape support in Windows sd

2007-04-03 Thread Gordon McLellan
Hello Andreas, This is a rather ugly solution, but as long as it is working, I am happy. One problem I have found is when I 'force' bacula to unmount and eject the tape, it will not automatically mount the new tape. So I have two jobs, one to do the unmount, and one to do a mount before backups

Re: [Bacula-users] tape support in Windows sd

2007-04-03 Thread Andreas Lüdtke
> Everything worked pretty much right out of the box. Took a lot of > messing around to get bacula to do a scheduled ejection of the tape, > but that's "beta software" for you! > > Gordon Hi Gordon, could you please tell me your suggestions/hints/examples about a "scheduled tape ejection"? I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] tape support in Windows sd

2007-04-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 4/3/2007 2:36 AM, Jeff Dickens wrote: > Has anyone been using tape drives on a Windows-based sd ? Yes. Not me, but I follow the list and there are people using windows as an SD with a tape drive. > I've had to > remove the tape drive from the system where my director and main > disk-b

Re: [Bacula-users] tape support in Windows sd

2007-04-02 Thread Gordon McLellan
Jeff, I'm running the latest bacula on a windows system, with a Dell (ibm) LTO3 drive. No problems at all so far, nock on wood. This is a little different from what you're asking, but I don't see that it matters, since director, client and storage are all separate daemons. Everything worked pre

[Bacula-users] tape support in Windows sd

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff Dickens
Has anyone been using tape drives on a Windows-based sd ? I've had to remove the tape drive from the system where my director and main disk-based sd lives. I have a Windows system handy with a Gigabit connection, and it occurred to me this might be a good place to put the tape drive. It's a