On 04/12/13 04:47, Leon White wrote: > That said, I am sticking to manually issuing the commands for now until I at > least have a full backup completed. I decided not to use Bill's new script > just yet, mainly because it takes a long time to cycle through all the > non-mounted drives and disable them, even if they are already disabled. We > have around 18 magazines (2TB drives have 2 magazines), each with 186 volumes, > so it just took too long watching text scroll on the screen for what should be > a quick drive switch operation. Instead, I issue something like 'benablemag 5 > 0' followed by 'benablemag 6 1', and set all drives to disabled immediately > after formatting and adding the UUID to vchanger config.
Leon, I only have (9) drives each with 69 volumes on them and I also notice that it takes more time than I would like (and adds many lines to the job output) That script was a quick write-up as kind of a proof-of-concept to automate Josh's benablemag script. My script/implementation works, yes, but [IMHO] it is not optimal - for the reasons you mention. When I have a few mins, I plan on re-visiting that script and maybe use SQL queries to bulk enable/disable volumes instead. Without looking now, I am pretty sure that would entail just a few queries to do the job instead of one bconsole enable or disable command for each volume and will work much much faster. I'll let you know what I come up with. -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
