Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD

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

Hello,

Thanks for the testing report.  If btape ran
to completion 100% correct without the "BSF at EOM"
then all the better and most likely real testing
will work. =20

It is curious that there is either a difference between
4.7 drivers and 5.0 drivers or perhaps a difference in
the tape drive itself because in my testing, without
BSF at EOM, the append test failed to append correctly.

In your testing, on piece of advice: be sure to run
several jobs so that you test appending to the
tape, and between the jobs (or between some of them)
stop Bacula so that the tape is rewound before=20
the append.  Recommended testing:

- run small backup job 1-20Mbytes
- run a second small backup
- stop Bacula
- restart Bacula
- run a small backup job
- run another small backup
- try to do a restore from the final backup.

The above should fully test appending to
a tape.

Best regards,

Kern

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 08:56, Lutz Kittler wrote:
> Am Montag, 31. M=E4rz 2003 17:27 schrieb Kern Sibbald:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Due to a fairly significant different behavior from
> > other "standard Unix" machines, FreeBSD's tape driver was not
> > supported by Bacula. Recently, Renato put a FreeBSD
> > system (version 5) at my disposal with a tape drive,
> > and I was able to adapt Bacula to support FreeBSD
> > tape drives (required a new Device record).
> >
> > Try downloading the current CVS (it may be in a slightly
> > inconsistent state). The btape "test" command will
> > indicate that you need:
> >
> >    Hardware End of Medium =3D no
> >    BSF at EOM =3D yes
> >
> > (I may have a minor typo above).  Though
> > I have documented the new BSF at EOM, I haven't
> > yet found the time to add documentation for
> > FreeBSD systems.
> >
> > Note to others: if you are not using FreeBSD
> > you do not need the above.
> >
> > Bottom line: download the current CVS and
> > run the btape "test" command. If it succeeds
> > it will tell you what you need to change.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kern
> >
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> thanks for your work. I got the following results with 1.30 from=20
> "28 March 2003":
>=20
> If I set "Hardware End of Medium =3D no" btape tests on FreeBSD are OK
> ( thats a difference against 1.30 from "25 March 2003" ).
>=20
> Setting BSF at EOM =3D yes will result in hanging of btape after:
> ----------------------------
> We should be in file 3. I am at file 3. This is correct!
>=20
> Now the important part, I am going to attempt to append to the tape.
> ----------------------------
>=20
> Now I will try to do backup/restore tests with Hardware End of Medium =3D=
 no
> and will tell the results.
>=20
>  Best regards=20
>=20
>            Lutz
>=20
>=20
>=20
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