I have been using Bacula and Bareos for a few years but have always used USB/SATA disks and a changer script that I built myself without problems.
We just got a LTO (M8) 48 tape changer to inprove the resources for backup. I had no trouble in configuring the changer and the first few jobs worked like a charm. I have Scratch, Full, Inc, and Diff pools (much like my diskpacks) and for both Full and Inc jobs the changer mounted a scratch tape and put it in the right pool. I umounted the tape (Inc as I tried full first) to test the move command. the next job that ran (this one on a schedule) hung with 3604 JobId=23896 device "LTO8" (/dev/st0) is BLOCKED due to user unmount. and I mounted the correct tape and the jobs ran. I then, to test, unmounted the tape and ran another job. This one again hung with a message like the above one. I tried mounting another scratch tape and rather than unmounting it and using the tape in the correct pool it labled this scratch tape as in the inc pool. ------------------------------- OK as I was composing this I found the following: If you have Always Open = yes (recommended) and you want to use the drive for something else, simply use the unmount command in the Console program to release the drive. However, don’t forget to remount the drive with mount when the drive is available or the next Bareos job will block. And I have Always open to yes (as that appears to be needed for tapes. Is there a way to tell Bareos to re-mount the tape that was mounted without remembering which tape was mounted. In general I want to move tapes around to get ones that need to be shifted out of the autochanger all together. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/698863db-130f-4aaf-ab4b-d6b28665c41e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
