Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 20:18, schreef Phil Stracchino: > > I don't fully get the naming.. Should i manually give all 8 tapes a name, > > and then add them through bconsole with the same names? But the naming i > > want them to have is dynamic ( Label Format = "Test-$Day$Month$Year" ), > > so it'll nag again that i don't have the correct named tape present, and > > to insert it... :$ > > There is no mechanism for automatically deleting and relabelling tapes. > I suggest just naming all your tapes once, numerically, and using them > in rotation. If you need to restore something, Bacula will tell you > which tape it needs anyway; the whole point of an automated backup > system with a catalog database is that it keeps track of things like > this for you.
Oh, that explains a lot of my worries :d Is there a way to script this? Like when somebody inserts a tape, and then starts a shellscript that asks for the name, and labels it for him? Secondly, is it better to have 1 big pool of 7 tapes, each with a "Test-$Day$Month$Year" kind of label?, or per dag 1 tape, with correct label ofcourse? Will bacula automatically unload the current tape if it has a different label, and load the correct one if it's in the same pool? I mean, will it know like "ah, tape 2 is currently loaded, but it has a label of "Test-12102005", but i need "Test-14102005", which is in slot 5, let's load this one instead to do the backup. ? :d Maybe anybody has experience in making it not-really-technical-tape-changer-people-proof? :d Thanks a lot for the help so far :d Kind regards, Bart Verwilst ------------------------------------------------------- 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
