See "Volume Poll Interval"
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:52, Christopher Gibiault wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have seen some questions/problems with automount on the list.
> I am also having an issue with it. Perhaps Im not understanding what
> it is intended to do.
>
> Here is my situation. I have bacula running great. ( linux
> server , single dds-4 drive NO changer , sqlite ) It works. As far as
> I can tell its backing up the files and I was able to restore them in
> tests. The FULL backup is about 15 gig which I do weekly. incremental
> every night during the week. My plan was to be able to just switch
> tapes before the office closes on friday and let it use the new tape
> for the next week .. I have a pool set up 8 volumes or so. I have
> allow any volume set to YES. Also automatic mount is set to YES
>
> Here is my issue. if for some reason bacula needs a different
> volume. For whatever reason tape fills because they forgot to change
> it. whatever. once the tape is changed it does not automatically
> mount and run the job. I have to use bconsole to mount the volume.
> after that all runs fine.
>
> Am I misunderstanding the automount directive ?
>
> he is a snpiit from the users manual on the directive ( this is from
> the SD config section )
>
> Automatic mount = Yes|No
> If Yes (the default), permits the daemon to examine the device to
> determine if it contains a Bacula labeled volume. This is done
> initially when the daemon is started, and then at the beginning of
> each job.
>
> perhaps I am just not understanding when the poll is done or the
> process of how the job is run. I would have thought that this poll of
> the drive would be done every once in a while while bacula is in a
> "wait for tape" state. or if it does only do this when a job is
> created. Perhaps a change can be made to poll the drive every X
> number minutes while in a wait for tape state. Perhaps right before
> it sends an error requesting a tape change ?
>
>
> Please if I am totally wrong on this or if there is another way to do
> what I need it to do , let me know. My desire is to be able to just
> let bacula run and detect the weekly tape changes without me having
> to manually log in and mount the tape.
>
>
> Thanks for your time in this matter
>
>
> -Chris
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