Re: [Bacula-users] =?iso-8859-1?q?ERR=3DThere_is_no_valid_media_in_th?= =?iso-8859-1?q?e=09device_=22DVD-Writer=22?=

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 12:27, mario wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 08:13 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 December 2006 02:15, mario wrote:
> > > Hello Arno,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 23:08 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > On 12/8/2006 9:05 PM, mario wrote:
> > > > > Hello list,
> > > > > 
> > > > > i am running bacula 1.38.11 and i would like to backup to DVD 
follwoing
> > > > > this page: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/DVD_Volumes.html
> > > > 
> > > > DVD writing with 1.38 is really not ready for production use. You 
might 
> > > > even say it won't work :-)
> > > > 
> > > > I suggest you upgrade a test system to 1.39.wherever-we-are-today and 
> > > > try that. 
> > > That seems to work. Thanks a lot!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > After filling up a whole DVD, bacula exists the job with an growisofs
> > > ERROR, that there is not enought space left.
> > 
> > You apparently have something misconfigures (e.g. perhaps an unpatched 
> > dvd+rw+tools, bad dvd-handler script ...) because normally Bacula will 
never 
> > attempt to write more to a DVD than the remaining space.  
> > 
> > If you just cannot get around the above problem, you could set a maximum 
> > volume size.
> > 
> > 
> > Unfortunately I cannot help you any more than to give these pointers ...
> I forgot to patch my CVS version with the dvd+record patch. It now
> works. ;).

Good news! :-)

> 
> If a DVD is full, it mails me that i need to insert e  new one, but it
> does not carry on writing to it. Is there a way to let bacula try to
> write to a new medium every 6h or so? Or maybe bacula can check silently
> if a new media is in the drive?
> 

There is a Poll feature, but I don't recommend it.  I think (I don't burn DVDs 
here so I am not 100% sure) that the proper solution is for you to do a 
"mount" command in bconsole after inserting the blank DVD.  This is the same 
procedure that you would follow after mounting a new tape.

> Thanks, Mario
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Should Bacula not notify me, and then carry on once a new media was
> > > inserted?
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Mario
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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