[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#728582: bacula-sd on kFreeBSD: unable to use tape drive

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Control: tags -1 + unreproducible

Hi,

FreeBSD has some notes about using bacula:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-message.server.in

In particular the following part:

> Due to lack of some features in the FreeBSD tape driver implementation
> you MUST add some OS dependent options to the bacula-sd.conf file:

>  Hardware End of Medium = no;
>  Backward Space Record  = no;
>  Backward Space File    = no;

> With 2 filemarks at EOT (see man mt):
>   Fast Forward Space File = no;
>   BSF at EOM = yes;
>   TWO EOF    = yes;

> With 1 filemarks at EOT (see man mt):
>   Fast Forward Space File = yes;
>   BSF at EOM = no;
>   TWO EOF   = no;

> NOTE: YOU CAN SWITCH EOT model ONLY when starting from scratch with
> EMPTY tapes."

Would you be able to confirm whether following this advice makes tape
drives useable under kFreeBSD?

Regards,

Carsten