On 2/2/2011 5:44 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> 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.

FYI, I didn't know about the release command before tonight.  :)

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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