On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
> On 2/2/2011 5:35 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape.
>>>
>> Did you do that recently?
>>
>>
>> BTW, unless you want to use the tape drive outside of bacula you
>> should avoid the unmount command and use the release command instead.
>> The difference between the two commands is the unmount command
>> releases bacula's control over the tape drive while release just
>> unmounts the tape but leaves the tape drive in the control of bacula.
>
> Oh now that's an unfortunate naming of commands.
>

Maybe its my description but its confusing..

BTW, the ramifications of using the unmount command is that you have
to issue mount to get bacula to use the tape drive again. However  if
you use the release command bacula does not require you to mount.

John

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