Hello,
On 3/23/2006 4:21 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:06, Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote:
Hi All
First off, I must apologise for using this awesome tool for something as
simple as a single tape daily backup.
I have configured a job called DailyBackup which runs Mon-Fri 23:00, and
a BackupCatalog which runs 55 mins later. Tapes are changed daily, one
tape per day. I seem to have problems with backup waiting for the the
tapes even though they're in the drive. I must admit to not being 100%
sure about all this, so would like to know if anyone has written a
guide/howto something like "How to cripple Bacula into doing a silly
little DailyBackup" ;)
Hmm.
Shouldn't it be enough to make sure that tape mounting is done
automatically (I never used these options, so I tend to forget how you
set up "Always Open", "Volume Poll Interval", "Close on Poll" and
"Offline on Unmount" options correctly, and perhaps use an
administrative job that calls a script to actually eject the cartridge
after the job is done?
Or, if accepting the newly mounted tape is the problem, use a cron job
to issue a mount command prior to job start.
You could even start Bacula only when needed, i.e. shortly before the
jobs should run - at startup, the SD always checks the tape drive and,
if possible at all, mounts the tape in it. (This is something I do, by
the way, only I start the whole server, not only Bacula, and shut it
down automatically when all jobs are run.)
Yes, I second that, and I would love to see such a document and include it in
the manual, but I am not the one to write it since my setup isn't at all a
silly little DailyBackup, though it doesn't even come close to matching
Arno's backup :-)
Too much honour :-)
I admit that I found some interesting bugs and problems, some of them
only because I use two autochangers, but apart from that I think my
setup is quite straightforward. As much so as the available hardware
limits it, of course ;-)
Arno
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