> Hello all... I'm a recent convert to Bacula after having used Legato
> Networker (now EMC). I've pretty much got Bacula doing everything that
I
> had Legato doing with one exception, "ejecting" my DLT-7000 drive.
When a
> tape was full, Legato would not only unmount the volume, but also send
a
> command to the drive to unload the tape (as if someone had pressed the
> unload button on the drive).
> 
> Can anyone suggest how I might get Bacula to do the same?
> 

There is an 'offline on unmount' setting which I think may do what you
want, and is documented in
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html

For me though, that never quite did the trick as I didn't want the tape
always ejected whenever I issued an unmount command, so I use a 'Run
After Job' command as part of the last job in the nightly backup batch.
The script that is executed is this ('scuse the line wrapping):

"
#!/bin/sh
echo "unmount storage=bitvs2-tape-sd" | /usr/bin/bconsole -c
/etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 eject 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
echo "mount storage=bitvs2-tape-sd" | /usr/bin/bconsole -c
/etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
"

I think I put the 'mount' command in so that Bacula knows that the tape
drive is ready for use again. Otherwise it remained unmounted and bacula
wouldn't touch it.

Because I run concurrent spooled backups, I have an admin job execute
the command which runs with a lower priority (higher number) and
therefore only gets executed when all the jobs with a higher priority
have finished.

hth.

James


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