On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:06, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> How does Bacula handle "foreign" tapes? I am currently using Amanda for
> back-up but planning to switch to Bacula and sometimes I erroneously
> leave an Amanda labeled tape in the tape drive. I see the error when
> Bacula complains about the tape and pull it out, but later when Amanda
> recycles the tape it cannot read it and reports i/o error.
> dd if=/dev/nst0 cannot read it either and the only way to recover the
> tape is to erase it and relabel.
>
> Shouldn't Bacula leave the tape untouched when it sees that it does not
> carry the correct Bacula label?
Unless you have setup for Bacula to automatically label tape (or explicitly do
a label command), Bacula will not write to a non-Bacula tape.
However, depending on what version of Bacula you are running, it will
automatically modify your tape drive parameters (variable blocksize, ...) to
be compatible with how Bacula uses tapes. If you subsequently try to use the
drive and the program is expecting a different mode (fixed blocksize, ...) it
will fail.
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