What do you think about MSL 2040 instead of MSL 1/8 ? Are there the same
autochager
capabilities ?
>From Bacula point of view is the same device ?
Bye
Enrico
Il giorno dom 3 mar 2024 alle ore 08:12 enrico.becche...@gmail.com <
enrico.becche...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> many thanks for these informations.
> Best regards
> Enrico
>
> Il giorno dom 3 mar 2024 alle ore 03:23 Gary R. Schmidt <
> g...@mcleod-schmidt.id.au> ha scritto:
>
>> On 03/03/2024 03:50, enrico.becche...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear all, I need to build a backup system and I would like to use
>> > Bacula. My project involves an HP Store Ever MSL 1/8 library with an
>> > LTO-8 fiber channel drive. The Bacula server will be an HP Proliant
>> > DL380 Gen8 running Almalinux 8 or 9. My idea is to have automatic tape
>> > management with Bacula sending the tape change command when needed, and
>> > the library identifying the correct cartridge using the barcode. Do you
>> > think Bacula can handle all of this with the hardware I have specified?
>>
>> Yes. I have a previous version of that autoloader running an LTO06 tape
>> drive.
>>
>> I had to set the timeouts to 30 seconds in mtx-changer.conf, and changed
>> the mtx-changer script thus:
>>
>> =======================
>> wait_for_drive() {
>> i=0
>> while [ $i -le 300 ]; do # Wait max 300 seconds
>> # grs, try once before checking...
>> mt -f $1 status > /dev/null 2>&1
>> if mt -f $1 status 2>&1 | grep "${ready}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>> break
>> fi
>> debug $dbglvl "Device $1 - not ready, retrying..."
>> sleep 1
>> i=`expr $i + 1`
>> done
>> }
>> =======================
>>
>> And, in the "list)" command, I changed
>> =======================
>> ## cat ${TMPFILE} | grep " Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full" | awk
>> "{print \$3 \$4}" | sed "s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//"
>> ## grs 20150529
>> cat ${TMPFILE} | grep " Storage Element [0-9].*:.*Full"| sed
>> "s/.*Storage Element //" | sed "s? IMPORT/EXPORT??" | sed "s/Full
>> :VolumeTag=//"
>> =======================
>> To recognise the mail slot correctly.
>>
>> Be wary of line-wrapping in the above code.
>>
>> I haven't updated for a while, newer versions of mtx-changer may not
>> need these changes.
>>
>> And the Python version may not either.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gary B-)
>>
>>
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