Hi, im using a really old Bacula, and it look like I don’t have any success in getting a permission to upgrade to the current version from my boss.

Ive got one server that is backing up two clients (all linux). The server stores the data on a external usb-drive that is mounted by autofs. This works fine except for one little issue.

Then the usb-drive don’t is used it gets unmounted due to –timeout option in /etc/auto.master. When the scheduled backup is initialized it takes a few seconds for the usb-drive to startup and get mounted.

When this occur Bacula simply seems to timeout, notifying me that there is no volume mounted, and therefore it failed. If I start a backup manually in the same situation the result is the same.

If I manually starts a backup directly after the failed backup, it all works fine.

Does anybody have a suggestion on what to do?

/Mike