Roland Arendes wrote:
> The 'status dir' output is a good guess anyway, if I remember correctly.
>
> Nevertheless, I would be interested in this information, too.
>
> Right now I need this for one machine, but it is not as critical as your
> situation. We insert the tape on the next day then, and the backup runs
> during the day. Not very nice, but I did not find another solution for it.
>
> Roland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georg Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:57 PM
> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Bacula-users] Show next tape
>
> Hi,
>
> at our the site the backup operator has to know in advance which tape he has
> to insert in the drive for next backup. The backup tool we used so far, was
> able to display the backup tape which will be used next for a particular
> pool.
>
> This function is absolutely essential for us, because when backup takes
> place (in the night) its to late to change tapes. Apart from that, some of
> the tapes are off-site.
>
> I found no such function in bacula. But perhaps I missed something?
>
> We can't use the "status dir" output, because we manually start (via
> script) backup jobs.
Well, I suppose that so long as you don't have a limited volume use
count or volume use window, then provided you have Use Any Volume
enabled and you know about how much data you're expecting to back up,
the output of List Volumes should be able to tell you a volume that will
BE ACCEPTED.
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