Rory, James, I appreciate your help, I will look into these suggestions.
Our habit here has been storing tapes off site. Being the only place I've worked, I've assumed that this is a common workflow. Since there's a bit of fuss involved in order to automatically unmount and mount, I'm thinking that our procedure is not as common as I assumed. Is off-site tape storage not a typical requirement? Thanks, Kent On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:09 AM, James Harper <james.har...@bendigoit.com.au> wrote: >> To unmount and eject the tape you need to use the "Run After Job" >> Director attribute. >> >> Check out >> > http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Configuring_Director.html# > 7123 >> >> There is an example on this Server Fault page: >> http://serverfault.com/questions/7242/bacula-tape-changing >> >> I'm not sure how you could run a job/mount operation when a tape is >> inserted. To do this you would probably want to run a cronjob to see > if >> there has been a tape status change (i.e. mt -f /dev/nst0 status > returns >> something rather than nothing) and then trigger the job through shell >> scripting bconsole. >> > > I find that it is sufficient just to do a mount after the eject > operation, eg: > > " > #!/bin/sh > TAPEDEV=/dev/tape/by-path/pci-0000:01:08.0-scsi-0:0:6:0-nst-nst > BCONSOLE=/usr/bin/bconsole > SDNAME=bitvs2 > > echo "unmount storage=bitvs2-tape-sd" | $BCONSOLE -n -c > /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf >/dev/null 2>/dev/null > ssh $SDNAME "/bin/mt -f $TAPEDEV eject 2>/dev/null >/dev/null" > echo "mount storage=bitvs2-tape-sd" | $BCONSOLE -n -c > /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf >/dev/null 2>/dev/null > " > > even though there is no media, bacula still takes control of the tape > drive again on mount and just uses whatever media is in there when the > next job starts. My SD and DIR are different machines, hence the > requirement to use ssh rather than just use mt directly. > > James > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
