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Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

2011-12-09 15:59:00
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:57:30 -0500
On 12/09/11 15:18, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 06.12.2011 10:07, schrieb Phil Stracchino:
>> On 12/06/11 03:10, Marcello Romani wrote:
>>> The closest thing to a custom "eject tape" builtin command in bconsole I 
>>> could came up with is this:
> [...]
>>
>> You know, personally I just set "OfflineOnUnmount = yes".
> 
> IIRC that option turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.
> In particular, labelling a new tape didn't work anymore with this
> option set, because the tape would be ejected in the middle of
> the operation, followed by a complaint about the missing tape.
> Has that changed?

I don't believe I have ever had that happen.  I can verify as of just
last night that I can label a new tape on demand in the middle of a
backup on an LTO4 drive, from BAT, without any unexpected ejects, and
5.2.2 automatically mounted the tape after labelling.


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