Re: adding a CIFS-share as autochanger

Am 03.02.25 um 15:28 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users:
> 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) ?

Is that a correct start:

Device {
   Name = "NAS-Storage"
   Description = "Backup NAS FPSS"
   MediaType = "vtape1"
   ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/bacula/nas_backup"
   RemovableMedia = no
   RandomAccess = yes
   LabelMedia = yes
   AlwaysOpen = no
   RequiresMount = yes
   MaximumVolumeSize = 750000000000
   MaximumFileSize = 10000000000
   MinimumFeeSpace = 1000000000000
   SpoolDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula"
   MaximumSpoolSize = 118111600640
   MountPoint = "/mnt/bacula/nas_backup"
   MountCommand = "/usr/bin/mount %m"
   UnmountCommand = "/usr/bin/umount %m"
}

Autochanger {
   Device = "NAS-Storage"
   Name = "NAS"
   ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
   ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
}


Do I need this in the Device:

Autochanger = yes

?

Sorry, I am lost today ...