Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-01 10:08:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change
From: Josh Fisher <jfisher AT pvct DOT com>
To: Leon White <leon.white AT greenpeace DOT org>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:49:38 -0400
On 4/1/2013 5:38 AM, Leon White wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> thanks for taking the time once again to respond to support my 
> bacula/vchanger project!
>
> I was able to read, set up and configure the scripts you supplied, the 
> variables are quite clear and anybody who set up their own bacula 
> system should be able to fill them in. Note that it may be necessary 
> to change the #!/bin/sh at the beginning of the files to #!/bin/bash 
> depending on your system (mine is Ubuntu Server 12.10).
>
> I plan to use this script to ensure that all volumes are set to 
> disabled before and after they are used to prevent bacula from trying 
> to use unmounted volumes. Is there any way to trigger this script to 
> run silently as soon as the update slots command is triggered, or is 
> there some other point we could trigger it during the process of 
> swapping drives in the eSATA changer? Perhaps automount could do it 
> and then subsequently use the bcommand script to call update slots in 
> bconsole as well, making the process of changing drives effectively 
> fully automatic and independent from the shell. I won't be operating 
> this system forever, and I want to keep the process as simple as 
> possible for anybody else who has to use it.

It is possible to construct a udev rule that runs a script when a device 
is attached/detached. I don't think there is any way to do this with 
autofs/automount.


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