Am 23.02.2021 um 15:11 schrieb Christian Lehmann: > I have a problem with a single LTO-5 Tape drive (Tandberg LTO-5 HH). > > I do backups spanning multiple Tapes, changing them manually. > > So I configured the storage daemon that it is automatically pushing out > the tape as soon as it is full. > > So my users (and me) can see this and load a new/the next tape. Than > bacula automatically mounts it and continue with the backup. This works > fine. > > But problems arise as soon as I have a tape, which is not full and I > want to unload it (for example to label a new tape or to restart bacula > or the server). If I just restart tape is pushed out as soon as bacula > is shutting down or during the restart (it is also rewinded as > expected). The same happens, if I "unmount" the tape using bconsole. > [...]
At home, I'm running a tape library with LTO tapes for Bacula to do backups on. But since I want to limit the noise and energy consumption of the library, I only power on the library when backups are due and shut it down again after the backups. I have this done automatically with a few little scripts and a power switch which can be controlled via TCP/IP. At first I ran into a lot of problems when tapes remained in the LTO drives at shutdown until I figured out to use the "release" command in bconsole console prior to shutdown. "unmount" also caused some unexpected problems. Long story short: have also tried the "release" command instead of the "unmount" command? Regards Sebastian _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
