Hi, 27.07.2007 00:34,, Craig White wrote:: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 00:04 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Troy Daniels wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Coming at this issue with fresh eyes I noticed you seem to have replaced >>> the 'delete_catalog_backup' script call in your catalog backup job with >>> 'end_of_backup.sh' >>> >>> Unless I'm mistaken, I believe this script is run by the Director, not >>> the storage daemon. >>> >>> By default IIRC, the director runs as user bacula group bacula and >>> probably doesn't have permission to access your tape drive. >>> >>> On top of that, depending on your configuration, the SD probably has >>> your tape drive locked/blocked so the script couldn't eject the tape >>> anyways. >>> >>> One alternative that *should* work, is to replace your mt commands in >>> the script with calls to bconsole instead. >>> >>> I think something like: >>> >>> /usr/sbin/bcnosole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf <<EOF1 >>> umount <StorageName> >>> EOF1 >>> >>> Should work. >>> >>> You might need to run the umount command under bconsole and take note of >>> any extra prompts and place the appropriate answers before the EOF1 in >>> the above example. >>> >>> I probably should also mention this is all from memory so is subject to >>> silly mistakes :) >> I'm not sure why the original poster is even doing this, in the face of >> other options like "OfflineOnUmount" etc., but I haven't really had the >> inclination to jump into it. > ---- > The original poster (me), has found only one explanation for > OfflineOnUmount and original poster isn't smart enough to decipher the > real value to setting this value to yes but original poster has indeed > set the following values in the sd.conf (thinking this is a good > idea)...
As I never used OfflineOnUmount et al I can't comment on that. But... > Volume Poll Interval = 30; # hopefully 30 minutes That should be 30 seconds; simple integers are - almost always in Bacula - interpreted as seconds. > Close on Poll = yes; > Maximum Open Wait = 1080; # hopefully 18 hours Hmmm... no. At least if my above assumption is correct. > The explanation for using OfflineOnUmount is principally a negative and > provides no guidance for a positive use. > > I have yet to find an explanation of 'TIME' but I have figured out that > using something like '3d' means three days but am uncomfortable with the > use of an integer by itself as it gives the feeling of being vague. Well, there were / are some places where they are vague. In that case, try things like "30 min" and "18h". If the configuration is accepted - fine, otherwise it's a documentation issue or even a bug. Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
