This 5 minute mail problem is actually a bug -- a negative interaction
between polling and sending email messages.

Workaround: set a VolumePollInterval that is say 10 or 20 minutes (specified
in seconds).  The default is 5 seconds and apparently it triggers an email
when the device is waiting for a mount request.

I hope to fix this before the next release.

Best regards,
Kern

On 08/06/2016 09:12 AM, Work TDNL Support wrote:
> Bacula 7.4.2
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> LTO-3 Scsi
>
> I am a recent adopter of bacula, and am still in the throws of getting it to 
> do things as i think i would like.  My main full backup takes three tapes and 
> the issue i would like help with is managing messages that tell me “Please 
> mount append Volume “xxxx” or label a new one etc etc” - these currently come 
> at a frequency of every 5 seconds - - i was looking for a solution that would 
> give me gradually increasing intervals so that bacula does not flood our 
> operator mail boxs (we use a human changer).
>
> I note that i can set “TAPEDELAY” which i presume will give me some static 
> control
>
> The only way i can see to approach this is to use the “Messages” 
> “operatorcommand” and set up a shell script to do what i want which is send 
> messages at the following intervals  0, 10, 30, 60, 120, 240 etc up to the 
> timeout value which is currently 3d.
>
> Is this a sensible solution or am i missing something in bacula which will do 
> this.
>
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