Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote: Hello, Alan Brown wrote: Each usb mass stoarge device has a unique serial number - this can be mapped to a fixed mount point. Not every usb-device has this. Some Chips just return vendor- and productID . :-( Anything which does this is arguably not a USB device. It is a _requirement_ of the USB spec that every USB device is identifiable by VendorID:ProductID If it's carrying a USB logo it is violating trademarks and should be returned to the vendor immediately. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
Hello, Josh Fisher wrote: A RunBeforeJob script could mount the device with a simple mount command. It could also tell if the drive was inserted by testing whether or not the mountpoint existed. A RunAfterJob could unmount the device just as easily. Of course, if multiple drives were being used it would be neccessary to always insert the devices in the correct order so that the device with a particular bacula volume label was at the correct device node and mountpoint. A better approach would be for the RunBeforeJob script to read the bacula volume label from all inserted devices, find the mountpoint of the device containing the desired label, mount it, and then create a symlink to the mountpoint. The bacula job would use the symlink as its ArchiveDevice. I have not tried this, and I'm not sure if the RunAfterJob script could then figure out which device to unmount. Unfortunately there is no RunStorageBeforeJob-Command. Since Director and Storage are not on the same maschine here, a RunBeforeJob-script has to do this stuff remote on another maschine. Regards Daniel -- Daniel Bloemer - BusinessCoDe GmbH Systemadministration and Support Phone: +49 (0)228 / 28925-43 http://www.business-code.de --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote: Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do this for you automagically? I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint. I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has avoided all my attempts until now. Each usb mass stoarge device has a unique serial number - this can be mapped to a fixed mount point. If the formatted volume on the device has been named, it should be mounted to /mountpoint/name - that's my experience on Suse 9.2 and 9.3 in any case. AB --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
Hi, Alan Brown wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote: I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do this for you automagically? I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint. I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has avoided all my attempts until now. Regards Daniel -- Daniel Bloemer - BusinessCoDe GmbH Systemadministration and Support Phone: +49 (0)228 / 28925-43 http://www.business-code.de --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
This can be done with UDEV. On Fedora Core 3 I created a file under
/etc/udev/rules.d named 20-jumpdrive.rules with the following line:
KERNEL=sd?1*, SYSFS{vendor}=LEXAR, SYSFS{model}=JUMPDRIVE SECURE,
NAME=%k, SYMLINK=jumpdrive%e
This causes my Lexar JumpDrive (USB thumbdrive device) to be mapped as a
block device at /dev/jumpdrive when it is inserted. When it is
unplugged the /dev/jumpdrive entry is removed. The %e in the SYMLINK
entry causes additional JumpDrives to be mapped to /dev/jumpdrive1,
/dev/jumnpdrive2, etc.
FC3 also uses HAL and has an entry in /etc/hal/device.d to run
/usr/sbin/fstab-sync. fstab-sync adds and removes mountpoints under
/media, as well as entries to /etc/fstab, according to HAL policies
stored under /usr/share/hal/fdi. By default, the volume label of the
device will be used to name the mountpoint. I configured HAL to name my
mountpoint /mount/jumpdrive by creating an XML file named
jumpdrive.fdi under /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy. Here is my
jumpdrive.fdi file:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? !-- -*- SGML -*- --
deviceinfo version=0.2
device
match key=volume.is_partition bool=true
match key=volume.fsusage string=filesystem
match key=volume.fstype string=vfat
match key=@block.storage_device:storage.vendor string=LEXAR
match key=@block.storage_device:storage.model
string=JUMPDRIVE SECURE
merge key=volume.policy.desired_mount_point
type=stringjumpdrive/merge
merge key=volume.policy.mount_filesystem
type=stringvfat/merge
merge key=volume.policy.should_mount type=booltrue/merge
merge
key=volume.policy.mount_option.fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t
type=boolfalse/merge
/match
/match
/match
/match
/match
/device
/deviceinfo
I obtained the values to use for the match tags from the output of the
lshal command.
So, when I insert the JumpDrive its device node is /dev/jumpdrive, its
mountpoint is /mount/jumpdrive, and an entry is added to /etc/fstab so
that I mount it with the command /bin/mount /mount/jumpdrive.
A RunBeforeJob script could mount the device with a simple mount
command. It could also tell if the drive was inserted by testing whether
or not the mountpoint existed. A RunAfterJob could unmount the device
just as easily. Of course, if multiple drives were being used it would
be neccessary to always insert the devices in the correct order so that
the device with a particular bacula volume label was at the correct
device node and mountpoint.
A better approach would be for the RunBeforeJob script to read the
bacula volume label from all inserted devices, find the mountpoint of
the device containing the desired label, mount it, and then create a
symlink to the mountpoint. The bacula job would use the symlink as its
ArchiveDevice. I have not tried this, and I'm not sure if the
RunAfterJob script could then figure out which device to unmount.
Josh Fisher
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Daniel Bloemer wrote:
Hi,
Alan Brown wrote:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote:
I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there
is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and
unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file
(sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk.
Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs
to do this for you automagically?
I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the
hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint.
I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has
avoided all my attempts until now.
Regards Daniel
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Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:13, Daniel Bloemer wrote: Hi, Alan Brown wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote: I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do this for you automagically? I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint. I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has avoided all my attempts until now. If you label the disk (using the filesystem's label commands: e2label for ext2, xfs_admin -L label for xfs, etc), then when the drive is detected, it should have a mount point created in /mnt/LABEL. At least that is the way it works on my Mandrake 10.2 system. I have an XFS formatted drive in my USB enclosure with the label BackupDrive. When I turn it on, a mount point is created at /mnt/BackupDrive and an entry is added in /etc/fstab. Of course, you could always mount the drive manually at a known location: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MyKnownLocation j- k- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] mount USB disk
Hi, I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. I place the mount umount in the beforejob and afterjob. But than I have the problem that sd does not recognize the mounted disk unless it is restarted after the mount. If I want to restart it in the beforejob then I have to run director as root because otherwise there would be an access violation for the pid files of sd. Do you know a better solution for this? Regards, Mick --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote: I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do this for you automagically? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
