But I also tried without manually mounting the tape but that didn't work either. So I need to mount the tape first and then umount it to unlock it, correct? I also tried without bacula-sd running (to prevent it from locking the drive), but that didn't work either, hence my confusion.
Nico On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:16 PM Gary R. Schmidt <g...@mcleod-schmidt.id.au> wrote: > On 29/05/2020 22:28, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Weird. It actually started reading from the tape when I did an unmount > > in bconsole (which is now blocked because the tape is in use) > > > Not weird, the Bacula SD locks the drive when told to mount a tape, so > it needs to be unlocked for anything else to use it. > > As bscan is stand-alone, not something that drives the SD, it needs the > tape unlocked. > > Having Bacula umount the tape also means that the Bacula scheduler can't > come along and bugger things up. > > Cheers, > Gary B-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Nico De Ranter Operations Engineer T. +32 16 38 72 10 <http://www.esaturnus.com> <http://www.esaturnus.com> eSATURNUS Philipssite 5, D, box 28 3001 Leuven – Belgium T. +32 16 40 12 82 F. +32 16 40 84 77 www.esaturnus.com <http://www.esaturnus.com/> *For Service & Support :* Support Line Belgium: +32 2 2009897 Support Line International: +44 12 56 68 38 78 Or via email : medical.services...@sony.com
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