Re: adding a CIFS-share as autochanger

"Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 03.02.25 um 15:05 schrieb Marcin Haba:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 13:45, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> --- is that correct?
>>
>> If I then go to that host-API page I try to import the settings but
>> somehow I never get the slots displayed in bacularis etc
>>
>> Something is missing and I lost track here.
>>
>> Pls advise ... thanks a lot ...
> 
> Hello Stefan,
> 
> The manage autochanger features in Bacularis are used for the SCSI changers.
> 
> Your autochanger configuration is the Bacula virtual disk changer that
> is not displayed on the manage autochanger tab.
> 
> To use the autochanger on CIFS share, that will be possible to use
> with this extended Bacularis autochanger support, you could use VTL
> software that emulates tape devices on the SCSI bus. It can be
> realized for example by mhVTL virtual tape library that you can find
> here:
> 
> https://github.com/markh794/mhvtl

So do I *need* that to use CIFS as Storage?

I don't use that for my local installation where I use virtual disks 
local to the bacula-sd ... I'd assume that as soon as I mount the share 
via fstab it would be simply the same behavior ...

Sure, I don't see these tapes in the "manage autochanger tab" ... but it 
doesn't matter, I just didn't remember correctly.

My understanding/plan:

* setup fstab with cifs-UNC-path and creds
* let bacula-user mount that
* add that mount-command to the storage def

proceed from there ;-)

So I can completly skip that Autochanger-term in this case (maybe) ?
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