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Hello,


My bacula server is on a virtual machine, I pass my Tape Drive via
iscsi to my bacula server. This tape drive is also shared sometimes
with my older backup server in order to restore old backups.

I want bacula to free the tape drive at the iscsi level after it ran
the jobs and a little time of inactivity. What config options should
I use ?

Bacula and iscsi are very very ustable for an unknown reason when I am
using the eject button of my tape drive so I should use offline on
unmount to eject the tape.

What other options should i look ?

Does anyones experienced problems with iscsi tape drives ?

Thanks

Hugo

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My bacula server is on a virtual machine, I pass my Tape Drive via iscsi to my
bacula server. This tape drive is also shared sometimes with my older backup
server in order to restore old backups.

Can you pass the tape drive through from the driver VM? Any enterprise virtualisation should allow you to do this.

Xen supports scsi passthrough and also pci passthrough. I use the former for running Backup Exec test restores in a Windows VM, and I've never used the latter but it should work fine.

James

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2012/1/10 James Harper <james.harper < at > bendigoit.com.au>:

My bacula server is on a virtual machine, I pass my Tape Drive via iscsi to my
bacula server. This tape drive is also shared sometimes with my older backup
server in order to restore old backups.

Can you pass the tape drive through from the driver VM? Any enterprise virtualisation should allow you to do this.

Xen supports scsi passthrough and also pci passthrough. I use the former for running Backup Exec test restores in a Windows VM, and I've never used the latter but it should work fine.

James

I need to share it via iscsi for my older backup server.
There is a passtrough feature on the Proxmox Cluster that I previously
used but I had problem using it.
Moreover, with the need of sharing the tape drive on two devices,
iscsi is a good solution

Historically we got this virtualisation solution which work well most
of the time but not reallly fine for I/O but I have to do with it

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