Re: filestorage :: some misconfiguration

Am 19.08.25 um 01:18 schrieb Marcin Haba:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 23:49, Rob Gerber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> regarding 'autochanger = something':
>> I read the bacula manual and typed a lot about it, but I'm not sure what I typed or read was correct. At most, I would suggest searching the bacula pdf manual for 'enhanced autochanger support' and reading that section of the manual. Basically, it looks like 'autochanger = yes' is valid for device {} resources in bacula-sd.conf, but not valid in bacula-dir.conf anymore.
> 
> Thanks, Rob. I have two more words for this autochanger setting.
> 
> Autochanger = yes in the Director Storage resource is valid setting
> and is used in the Director config for autochangers that are defined
> in the Storage resource.
> 
> The Director Storage resource can be used both for autochangers and
> for single devices. The change about Autochanger = changer_name was
> introduced in Bacula 9.2.0 together with a new Director Autochanger
> resource. This Autochanger resource is very similar to the Storage
> resource but it is about Autochangers.
> 
> On the Bacula Director side it does not matter if we use for
> autochanger this form:
> 
> Autochanger {
>      Name = "XYZ"
> }
> 
> or this form:
> 
> Storage {
>      Name = "XYZ"
>      Autochanger = yes
> }
> 
> Both settings are equivalent and they do the same.
> 
> For Autochanger = changer_name in Director config, this form was added
> for the Storage resources that are part of Autochanger and on the
> Director side are defined separately as single devices. This way the
> Director knows that they are a part of the Autochanger and it knows
> which exactly autochanger part they are.
> 
> To define autochanger in Director, using the Autochanger resource
> instead of Storage resource is a modern way of doing it (since 9.2.0),
> but defining it by Storage resource is supported the same well from
> the beginning of Bacula.
> 
> More details we can read here:
> 
> https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/New_Features_in_9_2_0.html#SECTION007010000000000000000

Thanks a *LOT* for this writeup. I might bookmark that somehow since I 
fell over these parameters a few times already.

As far as I currently understand, I don't need the Autochanger Ressource 
in my case with only one directory on the filesystem storing Volumes. At 
least it looks like this in my current config.

right?

As soon as I would have to combine several separate directories, this 
might change. No need right now, only asking for future setups.

Thanks again @Rob and @Marcin, great support here.