On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:49 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> What I'm after is  a more hands-off approach.  A simple set-it and forget-it 
>> feature.  I need Bacula to "make these decisions" without any human 
>> intervention.
>>
>> If the last tape with Append status is  not available bacula should do the 
>> following:
>>
>> 1. Notify the backup admin
>> 2.  Then wait 2 hours for remedy
>> 3.  If the tape in question  is still not available after 2 hours, use the 
>> next available tape.
>>
>> This way my backup still continues even  if I neglect/forget  to change 
>> volume status to Full.
>
> You will most likely have to script this yourself since bacula does
> not support this feature. One way could be to intercept the mail
> commands, parse them and take action by sending out bconsole commands.
>

An easier option may be to have a cron job periodically parse the
bacula logs looking for mount requests. Then take action via scripted
bconsole commands.

John

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