Centos-admin schrieb: > Hello, Hi, > Am I doing something wrong ? I have a single DLT320 drive and each day > when I eject the last backup tape, I have to manually mount the next > tape otherwise the next backup will sit waiting for a mount request. Is > there a way to tell bacula to automount the tape in the drive ? Reason > being I dont want to give operations guys a login to mount tapes. Is the > "automount = yes" in the sd.conf for automounting after labelling only ? AFAIK when the option "automatic mount = yes" in bacula-sd.conf is set (default), then bacula will mount the tape read the label of tape in the drive at the beginning of a backup job and determine whether it's the right tape or not. (bacula manual storage daemon config)
The other option you seem to confuse with is "automount" on the console. This will mount the tape automatically after labelling it. Once you issue "unmount" from the console, the tape device will be in state "BLOCKED". From here, the drive won't mount the the tape at the beginning of the backup cycle and wait for operator intervention. The release command is used to cause the Storage daemon to rewind (release) the current tape in the drive, and to re-read the Volume label the next time the tape is used. (from bacula manual) Please refer to the console chapter in the bacula manual. I always use "release", this doesn't block the drive for the next backup cycle. Hope this helps. -Dimitri aka Tristan-777 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
