On 19/05/14 23:45, Josh Fisher wrote:
> On 5/19/2014 3:56 AM, 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?
> 
> Actually I believe it is better to us bconsole commands from a shell 
> script to do this. bconsole will always be kept in sync with the 
> database version. The 'update slots' command should be executed any time 
> disks are attached or removed and should be all that is needed.

As a side note, 'update slots' does not seem to work in this scenario. a
manual 'vchanger slots' shows all slots as empty - but does not set
InChanger=0 when a slot is empty. This leaves bacula still thinking that
the slots are populated.

-- 
Steven Haigh

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