How to automacally abort the Mount Request Omniback Session?

[Chen Yingjie]

I want to automatically abort the Mount request omniback session on Omniback II 3.1 of Unix.
Someone told me just modify the "global" file's MoutDelay option.
How to modify it and make it effective?

I modified the "MountDelay=10", but it still not abort the Mount requesst session.

Thank you.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

to make it effective just stop/start omniback services with:
/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv.sh stop
/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv.sh start
Before doing this check that there are no current sessions running with: omnistat

Regards

[Alex Glennie]

FYI : The following enhancement request exists, but has not yet been implemented.

CR# JAGad04821

When a Mount Request is issued, there are times when you don't want to
use the particular tape that it is requesting, but would like OBII to go
back to the pool and select another tape. We need to be able to tell
OBII to go back and select another tape for use, and not abort the
backup.


A window popping up similar to the current mount request window, but
with three options/icons:

1. Confirm mount request with the requested media
2. Confirm mount request, but use another media
3. Deny mount request, and abort backup

[Alan Riggs]

At 2.55, at least, the particular media requested by omniback was only a "suggestion". It was perfectly acceptable to insert another media from the appropriate pool and acknowledge the request. So long as the media had space available for writing, the backup would continue successfully.

[Iris Berr]

Hello Chen,
since we wanted to abort a session which is in a mount request state, we modified the script /opt/omni/lbin/Mount.sh
(OmniBack 2.55)
We created a script named mount_abort.sh which you can specify at the "advanced options" for each logical device.
This script is a copy of the Mount.sh with the following command added just one line above the "exit 0"-line:

/opt/omni/bin/omniabort -session $SESSIONKEY 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null

Because this script also is taken for a restore Mount-Prompt, you should left the "MountPromptDelay" at 30 Minutes that you have the chance to satisfy and confirm a mount request in this case.

regards
Iris