Hello, This is an interesting idea. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make self-contained tapes unless you abort the last job that is writing on the tape when the tape files since 99.999% of the time when a tape fills there will always be more to write before the job ends.
If that is what you intended, then perhaps this is worth a Feature Request to see what users think of it ... On Tuesday 29 November 2005 00:27, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > Hi, > > My tapes usually last 14-21 days with full backups every sunday and > incremental othervise. > > I just let the system keep using the tape until it is full. But when it > fills, I would like if I could get bacula to abandon the current jobs > and start over with a full backup as the first thing on the new tape. > > Two reasons for this. The first is that the tapes would be self > contained. I would never need to switch tapes to restore the last days > backup, and I would always only need one tape to do a restore. It is > inconvenient for me to change tapes as the tapestreamer is colocated > half an hour from our office. > > The second reason is that the current running backup is going to be > useless anyway. There is going to be on average 12 hours from the > nightly backup halts, to I get there with a new tape. The current > running job would be split randomly over a 12 hour period. So I would > rather that it just restarted the job completely. > > Thanks, > > Baldur > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
