>But with tapes you do have the > simple constraint of "is there really a tape for this?" > > Is it possible to constrain bacula to only create volumes when it has a > blank tape in the drive to label? This whole thing with creating a volume > that has no physical reality is what confuses me.
This is where the scratch pool comes in. Of coarse this is assuming the use of an autochanger. If a pool runs out of tape space, according to the manual, Bacula will grab a tape from the "Scratch" pool and relabel it to be in the pool that is tape space deficient. The operator then just needs to make sure that new "Scratch" pool tapes are added to the changer. But again this doesn't seem to work in 1.36.2, which is why I was asking if that code is even implemented in 1.36.2. Cheers, Silas =0) -----Original Message----- From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:56 PM To: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) Cc: Arno Lehmann; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-labeling volumes depending on tape-in-drive? What do you mean? I'm talking about limiting this aggressive "wishism". I'm not certain how a scratch pool would apply to this issue. On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:32:58PM -0400, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: > Isn't this what the scratch pool is for? > > I have to admit that I haven't got it working yet, but I wasn't sure if the > scratch pool was one of those "Features" in the manual, that was not in the > Stable version of the bacula code. > > Cheers, > Silas > > =0) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Rhett > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:28 AM > To: Arno Lehmann > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Bacula-users] Auto-labeling volumes depending on > tape-in-drive? > > > Okay, Arno, you seem to know the most about the labelling so let's throw > this at you. > > Obviously, with disk-based volumes, you have to not auto-label, or limit > the number of volumes in the pool or it will keep growing. The physical > reality can be created very quickly. But with tapes you do have the > simple constraint of "is there really a tape for this?" > > Is it possible to constrain bacula to only create volumes when it has a > blank tape in the drive to label? This whole thing with creating a volume > that has no physical reality is what confuses me. > > Look at tape in drive. > > 1. If tape is new, auto-label it and use it. > 2. If tape is available for recycling, recycle it and use it. > > But never "just make up a volume" without having a physical reality... > > Obviously, with autochangers you'd want to scan through the library and > find the "best tape" based on the above logic... > > -- > Joe Rhett > senior geek > meer.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joe Rhett senior geek meer.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
