bacula attacks
Tue, Nov 8, 2005I've come into a Seagate Scorpion96 DDS-3 autoloader, which would probably work just fine under windows using backupexec. Thats the kicker though, as I've removed all windows servers from my apartment in a consolidation effort After a little research I found bacula, which seems to cover all of my needs (and gentoo has an ebuild for). As this was my first time with a tape library/changer, I was initially oblivious to the lun probing requirement. The library itself is addressed with a single scsi id, but is actually made up of different components. In the case of the seagate we have the tape drive itself at lun 1 and the changing mechanism at lun
SCSI Media Changer driver v0.25
ch0: type #1 (mt): 0x0+1 [medium transport]
ch0: type #2 (st): 0x2+4 [storage]
ch0: type #3 (ie): 0x0+0 [import/export]INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS it will eventually timeout (3600 seconds later), which doesn't really work for me, so switched to using ch as a module and passing "init=0".So far the bacula setup has gone well, tonight will be the first full backup. I will report my results. My only grip with bacula so far is the lack of a web ui, which I may take the time to write if bacula works well enough. On the stats side, turbo fredriksson has taken the time to write some cacti stuff for bacula.
As a note to people who attempt to implement a home backup system, mtx(1) and mt(1) are you're best friends.
<update>Apparently bacula does indeed have a web ui (bacula-web).</update>