You can change your Archive Device line to the path where the drive will 
be mounted and use autofs. It will automatically mount the drive when 
Bacula tries to access it and it will unmount it after a timeout period 
you specify. This looks like a decent overview of autofs...

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Automount.html

ginzzer wrote:
> Well,  that disk will only be mounted in during backup, so can I let  bacula
> to do mount automatically for me? 
>
> on 2/7/2009 15:33:18, Lee Huffman <lee AT shiftedlabs DOT com> wrote:
> Re: [Bacula-users] how to use a raw disk?
>   
>> You need to mount the hard disk and use that path on the "Archive 
>> Device" line.
>>
>> ginzzer wrote:
>>     
>>> I have an extra disk, I format it as ext3 (no partition), I can mount
>>> and do i/o from it. I set a device like
>>>
>>>
>>> Device {
>>>   Name = FileStorage
>>>   Media Type = File
>>>   Archive Device = /dev/sdg
>>>   LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>>>   Random Access = Yes;
>>>   AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>>>   RemovableMedia = no;
>>>   AlwaysOpen = no;
>>> }
>>>
>>> But seems that bacula fail to backup on it, what's goning on?
>>>
>>> In addition, if backup to the /dev/sdg works, then I wonder how to make the
>>> following works. I also have a tape machine installed, I can make bacula 
>>> working
>>> on that tape without any problem. But I want bacula to backup on the tape on
>>> every sunday and make another backup on  /dev/sdg on every wednesday, how to
>>> change configuration to do that?
>>>
>>>
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