On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: > >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. Again, you're missing the point. I don't want it to create more tapes under any circumstances. If it runs out of tape, I want to it look for (and use) the oldest tape available for it to recycle. Not create a new tape.
If I want to add more tapes to the pool, I can choose to do that as meets my own needs. I don't want Bacula trying to "wish" new tapes into existence that I have no intention to purchase. -- 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
