On 5/10/2013 11:10 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On 05/10/2013 04:12 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>
>> Can you indicate where the kludge is please?
> Changer Command = ""
> and
> Changer Device = /dev/null

Is this documented anywhere, out of curiosity? I don't think it is 
general knowledge.

> I probably should have called the resource VirtualChanger.  I guess I can
> still do so ...
>
>> Also, do the Device resources need AutoChanger = yes like in the other
>> examples?
> No, and I you don't need the Drive Index = either, since in both cases
> it is not a real autochanger.  The autochanger code is called, but when it
> sees it is a virtual changer,

How does it see this? Because the Changer Command is blank?

>   it just returns, and the Bacula SD core
> code just handles it correctly.  The main effect of this form of the
> Autochanger resource is to group the Devices so you can access
> any one of them with a single name.   If you start using different
> directories as Archive Device names, there might be problems, unless
> you make a simultaneous change to the Media Type.
>
> It was so simple that in the beginning I couldn't believe that it
> would work correctly in all cases, but it does.
>
> Kern
>
>
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