On 08/01/17 15:50, Heitor Faria wrote: > >> Hello Phil, > > Hello, Kern, Phill, > >> There should be no difference in how Bacula handles tapes between 7.4.7 >> and 9.0.x. If there is I would suggest that you carefully document it >> in a way that I can "see" the problem and easily reproduce it so that I >> can fix it. mtx-changer will *not* work unless you have an >> autochanger. There is no fake autochanger for tapes. There are two >> types of "fake" autochangers for Disks. The first one is something like >> mhvtl that is a program that simulates in detail and autochanger. The >> second is the Bacula virtual disk autochanger. >> >> If you have a real stand-alone tape drive, I personally know of no way >> to make it work with mtx, and if Bacula does not work with it, I will be >> happy to work on fixing it, but only if it is clearly documented in a >> detailed but very concise way. > > I think Phil refers to this is script > <http://bacula.us/manual-tape-drive-automation/>. > I documented it many years ago. This is the original thread > <http://bacula.10910.n7.nabble.com/automount-with-single-non-autoloader-drive-td28536.html>. > I'm not sure who was the original poster. I will try to find it now.
This looks like an automation-for-convenience issue. The problem I found was that I could neither mount nor unmount tapes AT ALL while the SD was running. The only way I could unmount a tape was to stop the SD and use mt. The only way I could mount one was to have it already loaded in the drive before starting the SD. Needless to say, this makes jobs that span multiple tapes impossible. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
