On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:11 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
> Unless I am missing something, there is no such thing as a nonblocking
> unloading of a drive.
Update slots currently umounts and unloads the drive in order to scan
the barcode. Doing an update slots will not prevent the next backup
fro
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 21:55, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 09:32 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Try the "release" command. It was designed to release the drive but not
> > to block it as the "unmount" command does. You may need to explicitly do
> > an "unload" of the drive us
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:15 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Hrm, release doesn't close the /dev/nst0 device either. update slots
> leaves the device as closed or non-existent. Will this pose a problem
> if I unload the tape out from under bacula-sd while the device is open?
> Testing here..
>
Whe
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 12:55 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> So release does not unload the drive, so I would have to pair that with
> an mtx call to unload. This I'd rather not do, but I suppose I should.
Hrm, release doesn't close the /dev/nst0 device either. update slots
leaves the device as
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 09:32 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
> Try the "release" command. It was designed to release the drive but not to
> block it as the "unmount" command does. You may need to explicitly do an
> "unload" of the drive using mtx directly. If that is the case, it might be
> an i
On Monday 01 August 2005 12:26, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > SO really, all I need to do after marking the tape as full is issue a
> > update slots command. Easy sleasy. Of course if Kern ever changes how
> > this works I may be in trouble as this is not the e
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
SO really, all I need to do after marking the tape as full is issue a
update slots command. Easy sleasy. Of course if Kern ever changes how
this works I may be in trouble as this is not the expected use of update
slots (:
It pays to issue "mount" com
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:49 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
Oh, I thought the blockage and mount command is per storage device,
not per
tape.
It does block the storage device. It prevents the storage device from
automounting the next usable tape. I hav
On Friday 29 July 2005 23:01, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:49 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > Oh, I thought the blockage and mount command is per storage device,
> > not per
> > tape.
>
> It does block the storage device. It prevents the storage device from
> automounting the n
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:15 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> Ah, that's what I was missing. Maybe you can run the mtx script to load slot
> 1 into the drive and keep Bacula's mount command happy?
Actually I think I found a good work around. update slots will umount
any mounted drive and unload it
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:10:54 -0700, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Jesse> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:01 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
>> I must be missing something here, but isn't update slots a manual operation
>> too? If so, can't you write a script to mount and then u
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:01 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> I must be missing something here, but isn't update slots a manual operation
> too? If so, can't you write a script to mount and then update?
Mount what though? In order to mount a drive has to be loaded. Not to
mention that update slots
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:01:38 -0700, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Jesse> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:49 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
>> Oh, I thought the blockage and mount command is per storage device,
>> not per
>> tape.
Jesse> It does block the storage device. I
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:49 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> Oh, I thought the blockage and mount command is per storage device,
> not per
> tape.
It does block the storage device. It prevents the storage device from
automounting the next usable tape. I have automated marking the last
tape as 'Ful
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:18:13 -0700, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Jesse> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:05 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
>> Yes, this is "normal" behaviour. You could try adding an admin job that
>> mounts the tape.
>>
Jesse> hrm... problem is that I do
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:05 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> Yes, this is "normal" behaviour. You could try adding an admin job that
> mounts the tape.
>
hrm... problem is that I don't know which tape is needed next. I was
just hoping to clear the block flag so that Bacula could mount whatever
ta
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:46:13 -0700, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Jesse> I'd like to automatically umount the tape in the drive after the last
Jesse> backup for the week. This way I can come in on Monday and immediately
Jesse> unload the drive and eject the magazine f
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:46 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I'd like to automatically umount the tape in the drive after the last
> backup for the week. This way I can come in on Monday and immediately
> unload the drive and eject the magazine for tape rotation. However in
> the past after I've don
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