George R. Kasica wrote:
>>George R. Kasica wrote:
>>Hmmm...OK, I'll pass this on to the list and see what I get. I have
>>seen something on the web about needing to do an mt -f /dev/nst0
>>offline before trying an unload, but since the device is erroring out
>>to mt I'll have to work on that more when I'm physically there to
>>manually pop the tape and reset the device. I'll let you know what I
>>come up with.
>
>
> Got it going with the addition of the offline command edit in
> mtx-changer....though it now kicks out an error for the HP DDS3 units
> and takes about a 60 second time before they go and unload due to that
> time out period for the offline they don't need.....any thought on how
> to better mix the 2 types? It works but it just doesn't seem efficient
> as each requires a slightly different sequence to unload.
>
> Three remaining items to work on if you can provide any pointers:
>
> In any case, now that its running with all changers I'm back to how to
> I remove the labels from tapes that I've tested with and then get
> Bacula to forget about them and create new pools (one for Each Drive)
> containing the 5 (or 6) data tapes and 1 cleaner each (There are 2
> sets of these for each drive)
You can just purge the volumes, delete them from the catalog using the
Delete command, then relabel them.
> And how do I set them up to get reused every other week as I'd like to
> set up a weekly full backup and hopefully daily incremental system.
This is basically simple. Use the Volume Retention settings in the Pool
resource.
The remaining points here are strictly autochanger issues that I'm going
to have to defer to list members with autochanger experience.
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