> From: taisgeal <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> > Subject: [Bacula-users] Automatic Eject tape once job finishes > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <1273850935.m2f.334...@www.backupcentral.com> > > > Hello, > > I have read and reread dozens of threads on this board and at this stage am > at my wit's end. I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me. > > My setup is as follows : > > bacula 5.0.1 running on a Debian Lenny server(server1)Bacula > MSL 6000 LTO autochanger with 30 slots and one drive on a separate Debian > Lenny server(server2) > various Linux clients > > Everything works and overall, I am very impressed with Bacula. It is very > fast, very stable and has not let me down. It performs better and is much > more flexible than a number of commercial products that I have used in the > past. > > However, for the life of me, I cannot see how to move a tape from the MSL > 6000 drive back to the slot from which it was taken, once the backup job is > finished. This is not a problem for me during the week. However, I change my > tapes every Friday and I have to stop the bacula-sd daemon on server2 and > then manually move it using the front panel on the MSL 6000. After that, I > start up the bacula-sd daemon again on server2 and I am back in business. i > never have to go anywhere near server1. > > I am going on holidays soon and need to change this, such that all tapes are > back in their slots, so that my holiday cover doesn't have to log into > server2 at all. > > I have tried the "Unmount on offline" directive, but that just seems to lock > up the drive itself. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. >
The "release" command is probably the manual command you want, but if you do this every day you'll have less likelihood of something like a power failure during the time you're not doing any backups or restores messing up a tape or tape drive. At the end of every day's backups I have a job to backup the catalog. In that job it runs "make_catalog_backup" as a RunBeforeJob. As a RunAfterJob it runs a command to copy the catalog file and configs to another server. Inside that script I added echo release drive=2 |/opt/bacula/bin/bconsole echo release drive=1 |/opt/bacula/bin/bconsole echo release drive=0 |/opt/bacula/bin/bconsole ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
