On Monday 29 January 2007 23:20, James Harper wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:12:41PM +1100, James Harper wrote: > > > Failing that, is there a way that the director can tell me what the > > > label is on the current disk volume? I'm sure I have seen it tell me > > on > > > > a mount before, or maybe I'm thinking of tapes. It doesn't tell me > > > anything useful when I try it now though. > > > > Could you be thinking of the bconsole command "status storage"? That > > will show which tapes are in all the tape drives, and a "status > > director" will show which tapes bacula plans to use for any upcoming > > jobs. > > "status storage" doesn't tell me what I want... > > " > *status stor > Automatically selected Storage: ExternalDisk > <snip> > Device status: > Device "ExternalDisk" (/vol/backup/bacula) is not open. > ==== > " > > /vol/backup is an autofs mount which only mounts if you try and access > it, and unmounts a few seconds later. > > I'm sure that in the past, bacula has attempted to access the device and > would tell me what volume was there. For some reason it doesn't now. > > Also, I'm less sure but I think that bacula would tell me what volume > was in the drive when I tried a "mount" command, but all it does is > this: > > " > *mount > <snip> > 3906 File device "ExternalDisk" (/vol/backup/bacula) is always mounted. > "
This behavior is unchanged since the beginning of Bacula (7 years). Disk Volumes (files) are always released when the last job accessing them finishes. > > Thanks > > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
