{"id":127,"date":"2012-04-08T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2012-04-08T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T13:15:34","slug":"shades-of-transylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Transylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully installing the Adaptec SCSI 320 card (and running out of PCI-E slots..) and connecting the &#8216;new&#8217; HP LTO-3 tape drive, I have been enjoying the deja-vu feeling of using SCSI again, after many years&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I remember the pre-USB and pre-Firewire days, when CD-drives and scanners (and <strong>expensive<\/strong> disks) were all connected using SCSI&#8230; Printers &#8211; of course &#8211; used parallel port connections, and I actually have a very early HP digital camera that used an RS232 connection!<\/p>\n<p>There seem to be only two &#8216;sophisticated&#8217; apps for tape backup on Linux &#8211; Amanda and Bacula.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unless you want to pay $$ for the commercial (Zamanda) version, Amanda is strictly command-line only, and (IMHO) byzantine&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bacula is also byzantine, but at least has some graphical interfaces (albeit for <em>operation<\/em>, not <em>configuration<\/em>) and a module for <strong>webmin<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I know what the &#8216;T&#8217; in TAR stands for, but really wanted something a bit more sophisticated!<\/p>\n<p>So &#8212; I have opted to use <strong>Bacula<\/strong>..<\/p>\n<p>After a lot of messing around with the FAQs and website config help for Bacula, I have finally got round the hieroglyphic password and connection errors, and got a (simple) config to work..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The classic catch-22 is that the graphical console (<strong>bat<\/strong>) won&#8217;t run until the config files are &#8216;correct&#8217;, so a lot of trial, error, and debug modes ensued..<\/p>\n<p>After some more &#8216;educated guesswork&#8217; &#8211; and establishing that not all webmin functions have taken account of systemd, yet &#8211; I now have a working configuration, and have tested a short backup onto the HP LTO-3 drive..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully installing the Adaptec SCSI 320 card (and running out of PCI-E slots..) and connecting the &#8216;new&#8217; HP LTO-3 tape drive, I have been enjoying the deja-vu feeling of using SCSI again, after many years&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I remember the pre-USB and pre-Firewire days, when CD-drives and scanners (and expensive disks) were all connected using SCSI&#8230; Printers &#8211; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=127\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,22],"tags":[82,96,126,250,306,344,357,358],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacula","category-lto","category-scsi-2","tag-amanda","tag-bacula-2","tag-configuration","tag-lto-2","tag-problems","tag-solutions","tag-tape-backup","tag-tar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}