But that would require me to remember to swap the disks and then bareos would only use the disks online, do I get it right? I hoped for the other way around - when I need to swap disks, I get a notification. I'm lazy and tend to forget such things 😉
MK On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 11:06 +0100, Andreas Rogge wrote: > I have a bad and untested idea that you could try. > > First of all you'll need a file autochanger for that (see PR > 2090[1]). > > * pre-create volumes on your disks (probably already did that) > * create a script that mimics the mtx-changer list/listall output > format > but lists the volume names from the drive that is currently plugged > in > * configure that script as a changer command in the file autochanger > * set autochanger = yes in the director's configuration for your > storage > > At this point you should be able to run "status slots" to view the > disk > volumes that are currently available. > Also, "update slots" should now set the inchanger flag and update the > slot column in the volume record. > > As you enabled the autochanger-flag on the Storage in the director > configuration, the inchanger flag should now be honored. > As a result Bareos should automatically select a volume that is > "online". > > Best Regards, > Andreas > > > [1] https://github.com/bareos/bareos/pull/2090 > > -- > Andreas Rogge                            andreas.ro...@bareos.com >   Bareos GmbH & Co. KG                     Phone: +49 221-630693-86 >   http://www.bareos.com > >   Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 >   Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH >   Geschäftsführer: Stephan Dühr, Jörg Steffens, Philipp Storz > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/811ae2693f3dfae61887296c11a281d213f358e0.camel%40gmail.com.
