hi again, > > Volume Use Duration = 4j > > What is the "j" time modifier? I never encountered > that in Bacula > before, and the manual doesn't tell me what it > means. yes :) i was thinking in french, jour == day... hail peer review!
> > i have tested my config a bit, and it works. > > i tested the another event (weekly) by changing > system > > date like this: > > date -s"day 01:29:30" #my schedule is set for > 01:30:00 > > plus restarting daemons (is it necessary?) > > And? What happened? bacula gets tricked and initiates the corresponding job. i'm thinking of scripting the test with a series of (date -s"..." ; echo wait | bconsole ; check). it could provide a good way of quickly testing your conf. the time slider script! > > for the fully automatic part, i looked at alex. > > kuehn's script, and started modifying it (the > delay > > seems too short and i have to use a mailhost...). > > Well, I don't know which script that is, so I can't > comment on this. the script basically emulates an autochanger by wrapping the manual tape change and providing a virtual slot for the needed tape. it also polls until it gets a tape. imho, it needs to do a loop with that process, as an operator (like mine) could make 2 mistakes in a row! the script needs a list of all volumes stored in some var. i would rather use the <<EOF Offline On Unmount = yes Volume Poll Interval = 300 Close on Poll = yes EOF combination. but it doesn't seem to work for me as i said here: > > docs, but it works partially: > > .it doesn't eject the tape each time. only the 1st > and > > it keeps sending mail. > > .it tries something like 5 times before aborting > the > > job. i don't want that! it should wait a day or > two if > > the operator (non tech savvy...) misses the point. > > > > i simply want bacula to eject the tape until it > gets > > the right one. > Admittedly, I never used the automounting options, > but regarding > ejecting a tape after a days work is something I > would do with a run > after job script which I'd attach to, for example, > the Catalog backup job. that's not what i want. i want bacula to eject the tape if it's not what it expects, and do so until it gets the right tape. > In my office I do things a little different: The > backup server is used > _only_ for backups, so I have a job that initiates a > shutdown last thing > a day. All tape autochangers are unloaded in the > shutdown sequence. The > server starts automatically - it's a PC based system > where the BIOS > options allow this. Otherwise I'd probably use > Wake-On-Lan, triggered by > another server in the network. ok. i haven't implemented client shutdown yet. > > .bacula 1.38.10 on windows xp w/ fd. i haven't noticed until a week ago... where is losedows xp's 1.36 bacula? can't find it. > Use a mailing list on your local mta. Usually, a > simple entry to the > mail servers aliases file is enough. i'm avoiding using mta on the backup/file server. is there a way of doing it w/ bacula? thank you, mlistus __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
