On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:55, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > If somone has transferred a tape into a slot that Bacula has loading,
> > that will undoubtedly cause confusion,
>
> According to MTX documentation if that happens the tape will be loaded
> into the next highest available slot (with wraparound).
>
> This would cause confusion to bacula, but IMO once update slots no longer
> causes tape unloading, it should be run automatically before and after
> every robot operation as this would bring human intervention to an
> absolute minimum (Yes, I know this is only practical if barcodes are used,
> but perhaps there needs to be a "barcode = Yes/No" flag so that
> non-barcode users aren't massively inconvenienced.)
>
> Kern, On a related note: Current (1.36.3) autoloader behaviour if bacula
> encounters a tape label in the drive it wasn't expecting is to unmount the
> device. I believe it'd be better to park the tape and then attempt a
> loader rescan and remount.
Better yet, try 1.37 and tell me what it does and what it should do. Between
1.36 and 1.37 a lot of things have changed. I believe that the current
behavior is to zap the Slot number in the catalog, then to try another tape
in the autoloader, and failing that, ask the operator.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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