Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to auto mount and umount & eject

2008-07-31 09:31:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to auto mount and umount & eject
From: Keith Sudbury <keith AT netzensolutions DOT com>
To: Brian Debelius <bdebelius AT intelesyscorp DOT com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:31:37 +0100
Brian Debelius wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> I run an admin job before my run, and after.  I have an autoloader, 
> but I think you should be able to do the same.  Possibly have the 
> first admin job do a
> echo 'mount quit' | bconsole
>
> and the last job do a
> echo 'unmount quit' |bconsole
> mt -f device eject
Are you running this as a before job in bacula or with cron?

Thanks

>
>
> Keith Sudbury wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My Bacula server is about 40 miles away and I rely on normal users to 
>> change tapes each day (iv trained them well!). However each day I am 
>> having to login to bconsole and type mount then select LTO-3 and then 
>> after the job has finished I have to login again and umount LTO-3 and 
>> then exit bconsole and type "mt eject" so it spits the tape out.
>>
>> Is there any way I can automate this process? So they can just put a 
>> tape in bacula will mount it do the backup umount and eject the tape 
>> after it has finished doing the backup.
>>
>>
>> Many Thanks
>>
>>   
>


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