-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Rhett Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:55 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?
>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. Ahhh. Ok, I get it. That is how I handle my differential backups. I have a pool of 7 tapes that the differentials cycle thru. I set that up based on information I found (in the Manual) here: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html Here is my diff pool declaration for reference. ###################### Pool { Name = Diff Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Recycle Current Volume = yes Accept Any Volume = no Label Format = "Diff_${NumVols}_${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Year}" } ###################### Hope this helps... Cheers, Silas Bennett =0) > > >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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
