John Drescher wrote:
> This is ok. The other method avoids having to mount. Just release each
> drive that has a tape in it from the changer than you can change the
> magazines and wait till the auto loader has finished performing an
> inventory of the tapes and finally an update slots. I have executed
> the update slots on my changer before the inventory has finished and
> in my case it waits till the changer is done and then does the
> command. I am not sure if this happens on all changers though. I have
> an exabyte Magnum224 with 2 LTO2 drives.
> John
>
I hate getting surprised by commands like this. So I looked at the
current docs at http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/index.html. The only
mentions of "release" don't have anything to do with this command.
So I figure it must be in the section for bconsole. Wait, bconsole
isn't mentioned in the index either.
Ah, maybe under "Console Index". Yep, there it is.
"release
This 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.
release storage=<storage-name>
After a release command, the device is still kept open by Bacula
(unless Always Open is set to No in the Storage Daemon's configuration)
so it cannot be used by another program. However, with some tape drives,
the operator can remove the current tape and to insert a different one,
and when the next Job starts, Bacula will know to re-read the tape label
to find out what tape is mounted. If you want to be able to use the
drive with another program (e.g. mt), you must use the unmount command
to cause Bacula to completely release (close) the device."
Thanks
Michael
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