Bacula-users

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

2008-07-14 10:23:57
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Eject button on drive and mount/unmount
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:23:50 -0400
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Felix Brack <fb AT ltec DOT ch> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Do you have  Offline On Unmount=yes in  your bacula-sd.conf?

John

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