On Tuesday 06 September 2005 05:35 pm, Chris Lee wrote: > > > Now, before I go ahead and fire it up, do I have to label > > > > each tape in a > > > > > cartridge as individual volumes, or is the whole cartridge > > > > considered to be > > > > > one volume? Or is that a dumb question? > > > > Unless the changer somehow hides the tapes from the OS and > > presents them > > as one big volume (which I doubt), one tape is one volume. > > My ADIC 1200G has a jumper to set behavior like that. It has Sequential > and Random access modes. Sequential mode makes the device appear as a > single SCSI device and when the host system wants to write data it just > writes data to each tape in sequence as they fill. Random access mode > makes the changer and drive appear as separate scsi devices and acts like > what I would consider "normal" operation where you can use a specific tape > (from a specific slot). > > As for Michael's question, I agree with Phil. Bacula (via mtx) should see > each tape separately; though it will see them as unlabelled until you use > the label command in the console.
Thanks a million for your input guys. My tape drive is an HP6400 48AL, it has some jumpers that I'm not sure what they do, I'll do some research on that. Meanwhile, I've got a full backup running as we speak, and it's going as smooth as silk so far........<X'ed fingers>...... :) Thanks again guys! -- Regards, Mike Sharkey http://www.rmsharkey.com Bradford, Ontario CANADA -- "Never wait for trouble." -- Gen. Chuck Yeager ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
