On 07/29/17 19:35, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote:
> Hello Phil,
>
> I am writing to give you a suggestion about the tape drive issue you are
> having.
>
> Even If this is a stand alone tape drive and not a tape library, you
> must have it configured as an autochanger on Director side. For example:
>
> * on Storage Daemon (bacula-sd.conf), you can have the stand alone tape
> drive configured as usual:
>
> Device {
> Name = My-Tape-Drive
> Drive Index = 0
> Media Type = LTOX
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> AutoChanger = yes;
> LabelMedia = no;
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> }
>
> * but on Director (bacula-dir.conf), you may have it configured as an
> autochanger:
>
> Autochanger {
> Name = My-Tape-Autochanger
> Address = bacula-server
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "nin1GJ0jsy4k_X4RhYZX4aoJxHK0WsKkp"
> Device = My-Tape-Drive
> Media Type = LTOX
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> Autochanger = My-Tape-Autochanger
> }
>
> I don't remember in what version the old tape drive configuration in
> bacula-dir.conf as a stand alone storage device was causing the
> mount/unmount bconsole commands to do nothing and this is the workaround
> we have to make it work.
Thanks Ana, I'll try that. I *wondered* why the Director was so
insistent about whether the needed drive was in-changer or not.
As to what version it stopped working in, mine was working perfectly
well as a standalone device in 7.4.7.
Is LTOX a shorthand for "LTO Any"?
--
Phil Stracchino
Babylon Communications
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