Linux Harbour

Few years ago, we deployed our first Linux file backup solution with Bacula to one of our client, when they was upgrading server hardware as well as Linux OS, their old commerical backup software doesn't work on newest Linux distros. Their new tape drive is compatible to DLT-3 technology, and Bacula provides a good tape drive test tool - btape to optimise parameters of tape drive configuration in Bacula.

$ cd /etc/bacula

$ btape /dev/nst0

Then you may run some basic tape drive operation test with 'test' command, and you may modify bacula-sd.conf configuration file according to btape suggestion if necessary. * test And if advanced test is required, you may try data writing with 'fill' command. It will take a number of hours to complete the full test.

* fill

Reference:

Testing Your Tape Drive With Bacula