Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger weakness

2010-09-06 Thread Dan Langille
On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:03 PM, Richard Scobie rich...@sauce.co.nz wrote: Unless I have missed something, it appears that if you have an autochanger full of tapes and it becomes unavailable for whatever reason - say the PSU fails, there is no way of accessing the tapes in another drive, as

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger weakness

2010-09-06 Thread Richard Scobie
Dan Langille wrote: Surely if a tape is mounted in a drive and the label is read, this should become the new location for this tape? Are you issuing a mount command after inserting the tape into the other drive? Yes and when the restore job is submitted, here are the results. Restore job,

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger weakness

2010-09-06 Thread Richard Scobie
Richard Scobie wrote: Device status: Device FileStorage (/mnt/exp1/bacula) is not open. Device flash_LTO-4 (/dev/nst0) is mounted with: Volume: AR0030L4 Pool:*unknown* Media type: LTO-4 Total Bytes Read=2,048 Blocks Read=2 Bytes/block=1,024

[Bacula-users] Autochanger weakness

2010-09-05 Thread Richard Scobie
Unless I have missed something, it appears that if you have an autochanger full of tapes and it becomes unavailable for whatever reason - say the PSU fails, there is no way of accessing the tapes in another drive, as the system thinks are still loaded in the library and will not allow a