Hi, On 4/3/2007 11:36 AM, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Luca Ferrari wrote: >> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 your cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: >>> The media type should be the same in both dir and sd (e.g. backup_server >>> only). Now it looks for a device which does not have the media type >>> given in the director. Tell me if you need more instructions or an >>> example of a working version. >> Thanks! I've checked a lot of times and I didn't see the difference in the >> media type field. However, now when I run the job I got the following >> suspect >> message: >> Device is BLOCKED waiting for media. >> and I don't see the backup up running.....any idea about what is wrong now? >> >> Thanks, >> Luca > > Nice to see your progress! > > "Device is BLOCKED waiting for media" is probably related to starting a > new file, in other words bacula could need your attention if it was a > tape. Now that it's a file, you can automate this kind of action by > letting the storage do it whenever requested. > > Add the following to the device and reload. > LabelMedia = yes > AutomaticMount = yes
Or simply use the label command! You also have to define the label format, by the way. > These should allow bacula to start using a new device without your > intervention. Last time I looked it was in the manual... In the DIR config is "Label Format", but the others I couldn't find, too. Anyway, this is deprecated and should be done using python. > For some reason, I did not find the documentation on these. Maybe > someone else can point out this. I don't even remember where I found it > in the first place. Perhaps among the tips and tricks. > > Cheers. > Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
