Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Mount command as a admin job?

2008-08-05 09:36:44
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Mount command as a admin job?
From: Brian Debelius <bdebelius AT intelesyscorp DOT com>
To: Keith Sudbury <keith AT netzensolutions DOT com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:36:34 -0400
I think that needs to be
echo 'release storage=LTO-3 quit' | bconsole

Keith Sudbury wrote:
> Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>   
>> Keith Sudbury wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Nothing seems to spit the tape out of this LTO-3 scsi drive apart 
>>> from "umount LTO-3" | bconsole  and then mt eject
>>>
>>> I can add those as run after jobs.
>>>
>>> How do I go about auto mounting the tape before the job has run? I 
>>> could run an admin job with a lower priority  which just runs the 
>>> mount  command, this should work right??
>>>
>>> If not ill just add it to cron, but I would rather keep it within 
>>> bacula if possible.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Don't use unmount. That blocks the tape drive so bacula cannot remount 
>> the new tape.
>>
>> Use release as an admin or run after job and add 'Offline On Unmount = 
>> yes' to your storage config.
>> The tape will then be ejected after the job and bacula can remount 
>> when the next job starts. Then you
>> (or a trained monkey) can just swap the tapes over.
>>     
> I have tried the above it does not work...
>
>  From bacula-sd.conf:
>
> Device {
>   Name = LTO-3
>   Media Type = LTO-3
>   Archive Device = /dev/nst0
>   AutomaticMount = Yes;               # when device opened, read it
>   AlwaysOpen = Yes;
>   RemovableMedia = Yes;
>   RandomAccess = No;
>   Label media = Yes;
>   Offline On Unmount = Yes;
> }
>
> And on my Catalog job I have:
>
> RunAfterJob   = "echo 'release LTO-3' | bconsole"
>
> None of the above seems to work, apparently the tape is not ejected if I 
> do status on the tape drive I can see that last nights tape is still in 
> the drive.
>
>
> Thanks
> Keith
>
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