Re: [Bacula-users] How to get tapes from autoloader to offsite-storage?

Andreas Grabner <andreas AT vianova DOT cc> wrote on 16/12/2008 10:18:40 PM: > [Bacula-users] How to get tapes from autoloader to offsite-storage?
> > Andreas Grabner > to: Bacula list > 16/12/08 10:27 PM
> > Hello, > i'm using bacula (2.0.3) for some month now. now i got a "Quantum > Superloader3" and try to figure out how to mangage offsite storage. > > Because there is no Import/Export Slot i have to eject tapes via the > native quantum web-interface or at the autoloader. > I would like to do a solution which a "normal user" can handle so i > think of the following. > > 1. do a Full Backup to a special Pool > 2. Send a Mail message including "Please take tapes XYZ1, YXZ2 to vault." > 3. umount Storage (maybe via Webinterface and cgi) > 4. Go fetch the tapes > 5. update slots (barcode reader included) > 6. mount > 7. do other backups > 8. Send message "tapes XYZ1 XYZ2 needed" tomorrow. > > Has any one done something like this? Are there better suggestions? > Has anyone sample scripts? > > Thanks in advance > Andreas Grabner
The various tape libraries I have used have not needed umounting. Bacula does some sort of SCSI lock on the drive it's using, but the library & robot are more or less "free". So long as bacula has unloaded the tape you're interested in, which it will have done if it's moved onto backing up to a different one, you can eject your magazine, do tape moves, etc as much as you want. ie take out the tapes you want to off-site, put in replacements...

When you've finished with those, do an update slots so bacula knows what it has in the library.

So I think you can skip steps 3 and 6.

Btw because most of my libraries have two drives, I have put a locking wrapper around mtx, to stop myself from accidentally interfering with the robot at the same time as bacula. Probably paranoid but just in case...

Glen

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