Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-18 11:02:52
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?
From: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:43:38 +0100
Sean Carolan wrote:
>> maybe change VolumeRetention to 5 days and do an "update volumes from
>> resource" (only changing *.conf won't do the trick).
>>
>> Also change "Use volume once" to "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 "
> 
> Here's what I have in my bacula-sd.conf:
> 
> Device {
>   Name = d2d4112
>   Drive Index = 0
>   Media Type = LTO-4
>   Archive Device = /dev/nst0
>   AutomaticMount = yes
>   AlwaysOpen = yes
>   RemovableMedia = yes
>   Random Access = no
>   AutoChanger = yes;
>   Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'"
> }
> 
> I have automaticmount set as yes, but I haven't seen a volume get
> mounted automatically yet.  Every time Bacula sends me an email asking
> me to mount manually.  What am I missing here?

you need to edit the "Pool" resource ("Maximum Volume Jobs" and "Volume 
Retention") in bacula-dir.conf

Read:
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0017150000000000000000

- Thomas

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