Greetings List!
I've recently adopted bacula as a network backup solution for a small
number of servers. After working with it for a few hours, I stand
impressed. The flexibility and configuration options are awesome.
One thing I need help with is ejecting the tape, before it is full.
I would like to do a 5 week rotation on my tapes. The tapes are 400gb
LTO3, but right now I'm only writing about 200gb to them. I run a
full backup Monday night and differential backups Tuesday-Friday. I
would like the tape to eject on Monday morning so I can swap it for
the next week's tape.
My storage server is a Windows 2003 machine, which I understand comes
with risks. The drive lives on this machine because it is the one
with the bulk of the storage (~150g), so it made sense to have the
drive local to the biggest backup target.
>From google, I've pieced together a few scraps for how I might
schedule the tape to eject, but so far I've had no luck.
I've set OfflineOnUnmount=yes in the storage daemon configuration, and
when I issue the unmount command in the wx-console, the tape
eventually ejects. So I've setup an admin job on the director, which
has a RunScript directive in it, commanding bconsole with the unmount
command. However, it's not working. I also don't receive any errors,
just that the job completed without error.
here's a snippet of my bacula-sd.conf
Device {
Name = LTO3 #
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = LTO3
Device Type = Tape
Archive Device = Tape0
AutomaticMount = yes # when device opened, read it
Offline On Unmount = Yes
AlwaysOpen = yes
RemovableMedia = yes
RandomAccess = no
Changer Device = Tape0
Alert Command = "tapeinfo -f %c | findstr TapeAlert"
}
and here's the job in bacula-dir.conf
Job {
Name = "EjectTape"
Type = Admin
RunScript {
Runs When = Before
AbortJobOnError = No
Command = "bconsole < c:\\eject"
}
Schedule = "EjectTape"
Client = third-fd
Messages = Standard
Pool = "Tape"
Storage = LTO3
Fileset = "Windows Full Set"
}
the file "c:\\eject" is a plain text file with the contents:
unmount
quit
I have "C:\Program Files\Bacula\bin" in the system path, and if I run
that script command on the command line, the tape ejects.
Any suggestions???
Oh, on a side note, I'm having trouble with the tapealert feature:
State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 27-Mar 21:00 third-sd: 3997 Bad alert
command: tapeinfo -f Tape0 | findstr TapeAlert: ERR=Unknown error.
when I run the command tapeinfo -f Tape0 | findstr TapeAlert on the
command line, I get no output, which is to be expected. tapeinfo -f
Tape0 by itself gives me all sorts of data on the drive and tape. Any
thoughts about what it means "bad alert command"?
Thanks a bunch!
Gordon
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