Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Eject button on drive and mount/unmount

2008-07-14 10:09:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Eject button on drive and mount/unmount
From: Felix Brack <fb AT ltec DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:13:01 +0200
Still using 1.38.11.

John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Felix Brack <fb AT ltec DOT ch> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a simple setup with bacula and one AIT drive. The backup strategy
>> is quite simple as well: one pool with 4 daily tapes and one pool with 5
>> weekly tapes (for Fridays). The backup is run at 23:30.
>>
>> To make it as simple as possible for the persons responsible of changing
>> the tapes I told them to push the eject button of the drive, remove the
>> 'old' tape and then insert the 'new' tape. Note: these people never use
>> a console to issue mount or unmount commands.
>>
>> My setting for the device in the storage daemon configuration file are
>> as follows:
>>
>> Device {
>>   Name = SONY-SDX-470V
>>   Archive Device = /dev/nst0
>>   Media Type = AIT-1-TURBO
>>   Always Open = yes
>>   Volume Poll Interval = 2 minutes
>>   Removable Media = yes
>>   Random Access = no
>>   Requires Mount = no
>>   Offline On Unmount = yes
>>   Automatic Mount = yes
>> }
>>
>> Now bacula gets confused about the status of the tape drive and
>> therefore quite often fails to run backups. If I manually issue the
>> unmount command from the console, then replace the tape and issue a
>> mount command, bacule works as expected.
>>
> What version of bacula are you using?
> 
> John

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