Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 11:36:31
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.
From: Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:28:52 -0400
On 05/19/14 03:56, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> Hi Vizo,
>>
>> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives.
>>
>> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that
>> the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any further problems
>> were encountered.
>>
>> It seems to be a problem with libuuid or similar?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Following on from this, I've had a problem with every restore with
> Bacula throwing an error because it thinks the volume is online (when
> the drive may be ejected).
> 
> I wrote a perl script that can be used with udev to automatically start
> / eject volumes. It makes a few assumptions, such as that you'll only
> add to the END of magazines = blah in the vchanger config.
> 
> I've attached it for reference.
> 
> Looking at the structure of the SQL for volumes, would it be better to
> set the 'InChanger' to 0 instead of Enabled = 0 when a volume is
> removed? Then set InChanger = 1 when the volume is added back?
> 

Hi Steve, I have not looked at your script yet, but this is something
that I did a about a year back to solve what I think is a similar, or
the same problem you are experiencing. It does it by setting the
'Enabled' field for a volume depending on its current availability.


http://www.revpol.com/node/146

Hope it helps.



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