2012/1/16 Miguel Afonso <mafo...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Quick question: Is it possible to tell Bacula to do an "update > slots" automatically whenever it has to mount a new tape from the > autochanger? > > Why: Some times bacula requests tapes that are not in the changer during a > job. The manual procedure is to > > - Unmount/release (not quite needed, as it is already unmounted by then) > - Remove/insert new labeled tapes > - Update slots > - Let Bacula do the mounting on next try, ou mount manually. > > I want to just load/unload tapes on the changer upon request, and let bacula > do the rest, so I need bacula to do an "update slots" every time it mounts a > tape, while in the middle of a job. > > Pre job scripts won't do it, as this happens inside a job. > > Any ideias? > How would bacula know you changed the tape in the archive unless you told it to update slots? I guess you can run a job that issues an update slots every 5 minutes but that would be wasteful and could get you into trouble if the autochanger was initializing.
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