8
Jun
Bacula mail changer script (aka poor man’s autoloader)
I enjoy Bacula for automated home backups on DLT and DDS tape drives. Being used at home there’s no – obviously – big-dollar-company-manager to ask for an autoloader; and when the time of a tape change comes bacula lacks a simple way to request a manual tape change and just hangs up. So I managed to build a fake autoloader shell script, which, using emails, would emulate a real autoloader. This script, which I baptised mail-changer, features:
- email support
- periodic email resend when tape change is needed
- tape detection and check (if you’re supposed to insert tape 4 and you enter 5, the script will kindly refuse the tape, unload it and send a warning email message asking for the right one)
