On 4/22/2010 12:24 PM, Mickael Johansson wrote: > > Hi, im using a really old Bacula, and it look like I don’t have any > success in getting a permission to upgrade to the current version from > my boss. > > Ive got one server that is backing up two clients (all linux). The > server stores the data on a external usb-drive that is mounted by > autofs. This works fine except for one little issue. > > Then the usb-drive don’t is used it gets unmounted due to –timeout > option in /etc/auto.master. When the scheduled backup is initialized > it takes a few seconds for the usb-drive to startup and get mounted. > > When this occur Bacula simply seems to timeout, notifying me that > there is no volume mounted, and therefore it failed. If I start a > backup manually in the same situation the result is the same. > > If I manually starts a backup directly after the failed backup, it all > works fine. > > Does anybody have a suggestion on what to do? >
Sounds like the USB drive is really slow to come out of sleep mode. Check out http://zhigang.org/blog/seagate-freeagent-auto-spindown-under-linux/ to turn off auto spin down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
