On 4/22/2010 12:24 PM, Mickael Johansson wrote:
>
> 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?
>

Sounds like the USB drive is really slow to come out of sleep mode. 
Check out 
http://zhigang.org/blog/seagate-freeagent-auto-spindown-under-linux/ to 
turn off auto spin down.

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