> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon McLellan > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:39 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Bacula-users] Scheduled eject under windows? > > 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??? >
Admin Jobs only run on the director, there is no client associated with them. You haven't specified RunsOnClient=no so the script is scheduled to run on the client which is never going to happen. Since the director is running on a different machine from the tape drive running the script on the director isn't going to help either. What you really want is a RunScript command that runs on a Storage Daemon but that facility isn't available. Since in your case you know the storage daemon is on a specific client machine you could run a fake backup job with the RunScript specifying AbortJobOnError=yes and then put exit 1 at the end of the batch script. > 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"? > There is a problem with tapealert and Windows. Bacula calls that command while it still has the device open so tapeinfo can't open it. This is a known problem which will be fixed in a future release. > Thanks a bunch! > Gordon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
