On Wednesday 03 August 2005 21:55, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 09:32 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Try the "release" command.  It was designed to release the drive but not
> > to block it as the "unmount" command does.  You may need to explicitly do
> > an "unload" of the drive using mtx directly.  If that is the case, it
> > might be an interesting RFC for Bacula to do that when it is dealing with
> > an autochanger.
> >
> > As far as I know, no one is using "release" so it may or may not work.
>
> So release does not unload the drive, so I would have to pair that with
> an mtx call to unload.  This I'd rather not do, but I suppose I should.
>
> I'll work on drafting an RFC to handle non-blocking unloading of the
> drive for the purpose of being able to do magazine maint at convenience
> but not block backups if the tape system isn't gotten to within the day.

Unless I am missing something, there is no such thing as a nonblocking 
unloading of a drive.

>
> I know you're working on support for multi-drive tape loaders.  How
> would these be referenced differently than just a single storage device?
> Now one can say 'unload storage=Tape'  with drive stuff, would it be
> something like 'unload storage=Tape drive=1'  ?

This is in the doc, though not explicitly.

-- 
Best regards,

Kern

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