Re: [Bacula-users] Bcopy help

[ganiuszka <gan...@gm...>]

W dniu 30.04.2012 17:23, Jack Cobb pisze:
> John,
>
> I have tried using the device names (i.e. /dev/nst2 and /dev/nst3) instead
> and receive the same error.
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Jack Cobb<jc...@sk...>  wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am wanting to copy data from one tape to a second tape so I have one
>> offsite and the other onsite.  I am using the bcopy utility but when I
>> enter the following command I receive an error message:
>>
>> bcopy -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i LTO-4-0 -o LTO-4-1 -v
>> bcopy: bcopy.c:163 Wrong number of arguments:
>> Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
>>
>> Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010)
>>
>> Usage: bcopy [-d debug_level]<input-archive>  <output-archive>
>>        -b bootstrap      specify a bootstrap file
>>        -c<file>           specify a Storage configuration file
>>        -d<nn>             set debug level to<nn>
>>        -dt               print timestamp in debug output
>>        -i                specify input Volume names (separated by |)
>>        -o                specify output Volume names (separated by |)
>>        -p                proceed inspite of errors
>>        -v                verbose
>>        -w<dir>            specify working directory (default /tmp)
>>        -?                print this message
>>
>> I have the bacula services turned off and am referencing the device
>> names in bacula-sd.conf.  The storage devices are tape drives in a
>> Dell TL-2000 tape library and I have tapes mounted in their respective
>> drives.  If anyone could offer some assistance I would appreciate it.
>   Thanks.
>>
>
> It looks from that you are missing the input-archive and output-archive.
> Although I am not at the moment sure what is expected for these (device
> names? /dev/nst0 ...)
>
> John


Hi,

Could you try something like this:

bcopy -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i LTO-4-0 -o LTO-4-1 /dev/nst2 
/dev/nst3

I have never used bcopy with two tape drives. In the bcopy documentation 
is a note about that this compliance with two tape drives has been never 
tested.

In addition I suggest to add debug to your bcopy command, eg.
bcopy  -d 400 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i LTO-4-0 -o LTO-4-1 
/dev/nst2 /dev/nst3

Good luck! :)
gani