On 2/2/2011 5:44 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dan Langille<d...@langille.org> wrote: >> On 2/2/2011 5:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: >>>> >>>> Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape. >>>> >>> Did you do that recently? >>> >>> >>> BTW, unless you want to use the tape drive outside of bacula you >>> should avoid the unmount command and use the release command instead. >>> The difference between the two commands is the unmount command >>> releases bacula's control over the tape drive while release just >>> unmounts the tape but leaves the tape drive in the control of bacula. >> >> Oh now that's an unfortunate naming of commands. >> > > Maybe its my description but its confusing.. > > BTW, the ramifications of using the unmount command is that you have > to issue mount to get bacula to use the tape drive again. However if > you use the release command bacula does not require you to mount.
FYI, I didn't know about the release command before tonight. :) -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
