Bacula-users

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

2008-07-14 10:12:34
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 16:15:51 +0200
Allan Black wrote:
> Felix Brack wrote:
>> What do I have to change so bacula will recognize the tape unmount by 
>> the eject button?
> 
> I can think of two possibilities:
> 
> 1) set Always Open = "no", so Bacula will release the drive at the end of
>   every backup. This will make it re-examine the tape in the drive at the
>   start of every backup. The disadvantage of this approach is, if you run
>   more than one job to the same pool, the tape will be rewound and then
>   forwarded to the end of the data at the start of every subsequent job
>   to the same tape.
> 

I already tried this but it does not work for me because bacula ejects 
the tape. If there is a second job waiting it will fail because there is 
not tape and nobody to insert it.

> 2) use RunAfterJob = "<command>" in the job resource to run a script which
>   will pipe an unmount command into the console. With your config this
>   should eject the tape. Then you can tell the operators that the tape
>   should always be ejected, and if not, raise it as an issue.
> 

Same as above...

> I have never tried this, so you may need to experiment to get it to work
> satisfactorily ....
> 
> Allan

Any other idea?

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