Hello, I have a simple setup with bacula and one AIT drive. The backup strategy is quite simple as well: one pool with 4 daily tapes and one pool with 5 weekly tapes (for Fridays). The backup is run
Author: Allan Black <Allan.Black AT btconnect DOT com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:47:24 +0100
I can think of two possibilities: 1) set Always Open = "no", so Bacula will release the drive at the end of every backup. This will make it re-examine the tape in the drive at the start of every back
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I already tried this but it does not work for me because bacula ejects the tape. If there is a second job waiting it will fail because there is not tape and nobody to insert it. Same as above... Any
Author: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:23:50 -0400
Do you have Offline On Unmount=yes in your bacula-sd.conf? John -- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source projec
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Author: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:00:32 -0400
I believe if you turn that off bacula will not eject the tape when the job finishes but you will be able to eject it using the eject button. John -- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Aw
Author: Allan Black <Allan.Black AT btconnect DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:52:13 +0100
Fair enough. If you want to eject the tape after the last job, you could try running an admin job which ejects the tape, and time that job to start after the last backup (and run at a lower priority,
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Hello John Sorry for the late feedback; I just wanted to let the things running for some time before reporting any results. In fact setting the option 'Offline on Unmount' to 'no' solved the problem!