Error executing backup: Error (65280) executing cdrecord command to get properties.

["Alejandro Weinstein" <alejandro.weinstein@gmail.com>]

Hi:

I am installing Cedar Backup 2 in an Ubuntu Server 6.06LTS.
I edited the /etc/cback.conf file, and after I executed cback
validate, I get the following error:

"Error executing backup: Error (65280) executing cdrecord command to
get properties."

The store configuration section of the configuration file is:

  <store>
     <source_dir>/var/backups/cback/stage</source_dir>
     <media_type>cdr-74</media_type>
     <device_type>cdwriter</device_type>
     <target_device>/dev/cdrom</target_device>
     <target_scsi_id>0,0,0</target_scsi_id>
     <drive_speed>16</drive_speed>
     <check_data>Y</check_data>
  </store>

I think that the problem is related to the fact that in Ubuntu, with a
2.6 kernel, the cdwriter doesn't appears as a SCSI device.  Quoting
from http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2693 :

"It's kernel changes. In 2.4 and previous, the only way to send generic
userland commands to ATAPI devices was to get the kernel to make them
appear as SCSI devices (using ide-scsi). With kernel 2.6, ide-scsi is
deprecated; ATAPI devices are expected to handle the SG_IO commands
directly through the /dev/hd interface. The commands sent to the drive
are the same in the end, but the kernel no longer invents the details
of a SCSI bus for cdrecord -scanbus to look at."

I tried with
<target_scsi_id>/dev/cdrom</target_scsi_id>
and get the error
"Error reading or handling configuration: SCSI id is not in a valid form."

I can burn a CD with cdrecord using the switch "dev=/dev/cdrom"
without problems.

Is my diagnostic to the problem right?
What can I do to solve the problem?

Regards,
Alejandro.


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