Mike wrote: >> Mike wrote: >>> I almost have bacula working, but I'm still a little off. The backups >>> are happening and the Backup-Catalog job is there. Yesterday I turned >>> on the flag so that once a volume is written to the volume is marked >>> as 'Used' so that the RunAfterJob script can eject the tape for sending >>> offsite. The problem now is the Backup-Catalog is not written to the >>> tape because the tape is 'Used' after the nightly, primary backup. >>> >>> Any suggestions on how to get both the primary backup and the catalog >>> backup written to tape, then the tape marked as 'Used' and ejected? >>> >>> If no suggestions, I'll write a script to parse which tape is mounted >>> and update the tape status after the catalog rather than using the >>> flag in bacula-dir.conf. >>> >>> Mike > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ryan Novosielski might have said: > >> If you can be that predictable, you just put the eject script in the >> RunAfter of the Catalog, not the other job. They're both jobs getting >> executed, so that should work fine. >> > > I have the eject as part of the RunAfter for the Catalog. The problem > is that Catalog will not run since the main job has marked the tape > as 'Used'.
Not too complicated if you think it through. You don't specify how you set the tape to become used (I use Maximum Volume Jobs), but change your method to allow 2 jobs to fit on the tape. I do this for my BiWeekly Full backups. -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
